Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Bellary #5SC
Won
K.C.Kondaiah
INC Indian National CongressMargin
63,738 8.6 pp
votes
over N.Thippanna (LS)
The contest
Electors11,79,711
Votes polled7,38,610
Turnout62.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.87 L49.7% of electorate
Female electors5.93 L50.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,011females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.C.Kondaiah | INC | 2,84,909 | 38.60% | |
| 2 | N.Thippanna | LS | 2,21,171 | 29.90% | |
| 3 | Y.Nettakallappa | JD | 1,86,992 | 25.30% | |
| 4 | Sudhakar Hiremat | KVP | 10,498 | 1.40% | |
| 5 | P.Narayana Murthy | IND | 9,201 | 1.20% | |
| 6 | R.Manjunath | IND | 1,888 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | K. Subhan Sab | IND | 1,055 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | P.Prakash Reddy | IND | 862 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 22,034, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 716,576 · NOTA n/a · published 738,610 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-12