Bharatiya Janta Party on Udupi Chikmaga

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 4 OF 6 contested

BJP never finished second here

Strike rate

66.7%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 6 published candidatures

Best vote share62.50%in 2019

Worst vote share13.20%in 1996

Average vote share44.20% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here26.77 Lacross all 6 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party 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, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2004 — 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

6 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Kota Srinivas Poojary	7,32,234	59.60%	1	Won
2019	Shobha Karandlaje	7,18,916	62.50%	1	Won
2014	Shobha Karandlaje	5,81,168	56.20%	1	Won
2009	D.V.Sadananda Gowda	4,01,441	48.00%	1	Won
1996	L Shivalingaiah	94,373	13.20%	4	Lost · 4th
1991	L. Shivalingaiah	1,48,456	25.70%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Janata Dal Janata Dal (Secular)Janata Dal (United)Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (U)Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Communist Party Of India Janata Pary (JP)Lok Shakti Kannada Chalevali Vatal Paksha Karnataka Vikash Party Proutist Sarva Samaj Samiti Uttama Prajaakeeya Party Jharkhand Party Shiv Sena Proutist Sarva Samaj Aam Aadmi Party Urs Samyuktha Paksha Janahitha Paksha Kannada Nadu Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star Karunada Sevakara Party Karnataka Rashtra Samithi Republican Party Of India (Karnataka)