Dharwad South #23GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

B.M.Menasinakai

LS Lok Shakti

Margin

86,962 12.1 pp

votes

over Prof. I.G.Sanadi (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors10,61,612

Votes polled7,18,159

Turnout67.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.45 L51.4% of electorate

Female electors5.16 L48.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 947females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	B.M.Menasinakai	LS	3,28,333	45.70%
2	Prof. I.G.Sanadi	INC	2,41,371	33.60%
3	Shivannanavar Basavaraj Neelappa	JD	1,26,722	17.60%
4	Dr.Mohan Hande	KVP	7,998	1.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,735, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 704,424 · NOTA n/a · published 718,159 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998