Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Gulbarga #2GEN
Won
Baswaraj Patil Sedam
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,31,798 17.5 pp
votes
over Qamarul Islam (JD)
The contest
Electors12,74,111
Votes polled7,51,734
Turnout59.0%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.35 L49.8% of electorate
Female electors6.39 L50.2% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,006females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baswaraj Patil Sedam | BJP | 3,28,982 | 43.80% | |
| 2 | Qamarul Islam | JD | 1,97,184 | 26.20% | |
| 3 | Dr.B.G.Jawali | INC | 1,40,913 | 18.70% | |
| 4 | Vithal Heroor | BSP | 55,583 | 7.40% | |
| 5 | S.K.Kanta | SP | 7,671 | 1.00% | |
| 6 | Mahamed Masaq Ali | BMSM | 3,030 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Khalid Kareem Khan | RJD | 1,456 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Abdul Hamid Dabar | MLKSC | 889 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 16,026, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 735,708 · NOTA n/a · published 751,734 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-12