Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Chitradurga #7GEN
Won
K. H. Ranganath
INC Indian National CongressMargin
56,811 10.4 pp
votes
over B. L. Gowda (JP)
The contest
Electors7,73,621
Votes polled5,45,358
Turnout70.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.97 L51.3% of electorate
Female electors3.77 L48.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
951females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. H. Ranganath | INC | 2,79,146 | 51.20% | |
| 2 | B. L. Gowda | JP | 2,22,335 | 40.80% | |
| 3 | S. Siddappa | IND | 15,428 | 2.80% | |
| 4 | M. J. Jayakumar | IND | 3,966 | 0.70% | |
| 5 | T. Thipperudraiah | IND | 3,941 | 0.70% | |
| 6 | C. Veerabhadrappa | IND | 2,715 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | A. R. Basavaraja | IND | 1,918 | 0.40% | |
| 8 | C. M. Abdul Ghani | IND | 1,825 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Syed Siraj | IND | 952 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | S. K. Venkata Reddy | IND | 926 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | A. Veeranna | IND | 577 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,629, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 533,729 · NOTA n/a · published 545,358 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1984
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- 2026-09-12