Kanara #22SC

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1999

Won

Margaret Alva

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

10,591 1.4 pp

votes

over Anant Kumar (BJP)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,01,130

Votes polled7,73,556

Turnout70.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.6 L50.9% of electorate

Female electors5.41 L49.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 966females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Margaret Alva	INC	3,56,246	46.10%
2	Anant Kumar	BJP	3,45,655	44.70%
3	Gardikar Damodhar Narayana Naik	JDS	36,258	4.70%
4	Nayak Balakrishna Venkanna	NCP	3,301	0.40%
5	Kalbagkar M.K.S.	ABP	3,074	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,022, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 744,534 · NOTA n/a · published 773,556 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999