Shimoga #21GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ayanoor Manjunath

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,59,907 20.3 pp

votes

over D.B.Chandre Gowda (INC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,10,135

Votes polled7,86,730

Turnout70.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.64 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors5.46 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 967females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ayanoor Manjunath	BJP	3,52,277	44.80%
2	D.B.Chandre Gowda	INC	1,92,370	24.50%
3	S.Bangarappa	KVP	1,86,731	23.70%
4	B.P.Shivakumar	JD	37,953	4.80%
5	H.Bangarappa	IND	6,565	0.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,834, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 775,896 · NOTA n/a · published 786,730 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998