Janata Dal on Dharwad

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 4 contested

JD runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

25%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share41.30%in 1996

Worst vote share21.20%in 1998

Average vote share27.90% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested1998

Votes polled here11.26 Lacross all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Janata Dal vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1998	H D Kumaraswamy	2,60,859	21.20%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	H D Kumaraswamy	4,40,444	41.30%	1	Won
1991	P.G.R. Sindhia	2,07,376	25.60%	3	Lost · 3rd
1989	C.Narayanaswamy	2,17,044	23.50%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Dal (Secular)Indian National Congress (U)Janata Pary (JP)Lok Dal Nationalist Congress Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Karnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Lok Dal (BAHUGUNA)Janata Dal (United)Naki Bharatiya Ekta Party Aam Aadmi Party Republican Party Of India (A)Prahar Janshakti Party Uttama Prajaakeeya Party Karnataka Rashtra Samithi All India Hindustan Congress Party Tipu Sultan Party Proutist Bloc India Indian Labour Party (Ambedkar Phule)Bharatiya Prajagala Kalyana Paksha Azad Mazdoor Kissan Party