Chikmagalur #20GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

B L Shankar

JD Janata Dal

Margin

4,059 0.6 pp

votes

over D K Taradevi Siddartha (INC)

The contest

17 candidate rows

Electors9,96,548

Votes polled6,49,775

Turnout65.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.97 L49.9% of electorate

Female electors4.99 L50.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,003females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

17 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	B L Shankar	JD	1,95,857	30.10%
2	D K Taradevi Siddartha	INC	1,91,798	29.50%
3	H R Laxmana Gowda	BJP	1,51,949	23.40%
4	S L Radha Sundaresh	CPI	71,086	10.90%
5	D R Raju	KCP	7,311	1.10%
6	P L Lokeshappa	IND	2,788	0.40%
7	P C John	IND	2,307	0.40%
8	D Doddaiah	IND	2,020	0.30%
9	D Sadashiva	IND	1,744	0.30%
10	U Babu Mogera	IND	1,654	0.30%
11	Nirmala Kumar Jain	IND	1,562	0.20%
12	Krishna Naik	IND	1,397	0.20%
13	Margada Mallappa	AIICT	1,219	0.20%
14	M K Vijaya Dev	IND	699	0.10%
15	B K Manje Gowda	IND	684	0.10%
16	P Moosa	IND	503	0.10%
17	Guinness Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy	IND	438	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,759, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 635,016 · NOTA n/a · published 649,775 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996