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Kanara #22SC
Won
Ananthkumar Hegde
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,72,226 20.7 pp
votes
over Margaret Alva (INC)
The contest
Electors12,07,373
Votes polled8,32,123
Turnout68.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.16 L51.0% of electorate
Female electors5.91 L49.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
960females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ananthkumar Hegde | BJP | 4,33,174 | 52.10% | |
| 2 | Margaret Alva | INC | 2,60,948 | 31.40% | |
| 3 | Devaraya Naik G | JDS | 69,487 | 8.40% | |
| 4 | Neernalli Ramakrishn | JP | 24,213 | 2.90% | |
| 5 | Jayant Mukund Tinaikar | KNP | 19,840 | 2.40% | |
| 6 | Mutaguppi Laxmesh Putta | IND | 17,513 | 2.10% | |
| 7 | Ajeya Madhav Shanbhag | IND | 8,757 | 1.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -1,809, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 833,932 · NOTA n/a · published 832,123 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
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- 2026-09-13