Belgaum #25GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Babagouda Rudragouda Patil

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

97,057 13.2 pp

votes

over S.B.Sidnal (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors12,01,792

Votes polled7,37,740

Turnout61.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.02 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors6 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 996females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Babagouda Rudragouda Patil	BJP	3,27,891	44.40%
2	S.B.Sidnal	INC	2,30,834	31.30%
3	Shivanand H.Koujalagi	JD	1,11,961	15.20%
4	Basawant Iroji Patil	IND	44,801	6.10%
5	Basanagouda Naganagouda Goudar	KVP	4,463	0.60%
6	Rudrappa Veerappa Mokhashi	KRRS	4,264	0.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,526, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 724,214 · NOTA n/a · published 737,740 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998