Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Dharwad North #24GEN
Won
Vijay Sankeshwar
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,29,201 18.6 pp
votes
over D.K.Naikar (INC)
The contest
Electors10,84,875
Votes polled6,94,185
Turnout64.0%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.55 L51.2% of electorate
Female electors5.3 L48.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
954females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vijay Sankeshwar | BJP | 3,39,660 | 48.90% | |
| 2 | D.K.Naikar | INC | 2,10,459 | 30.30% | |
| 3 | Shankaranna Munvalli | JD | 1,13,763 | 16.40% | |
| 4 | Dastikoppa Annappa Basavanneppa | IND | 4,310 | 0.60% | |
| 5 | Karikai Mahantesh Rudrappa | KVP | 3,652 | 0.50% | |
| 6 | Acharya. K.S. | MP | 2,903 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Santosh Sarvade | ABHM | 1,580 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | C.M.Devendra Nayak | IND | 959 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 16,899, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 677,286 · NOTA n/a · published 694,185 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12