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Bharatiya Janta Party on Dakshina Kanna

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 9 OF 11 contested

BJP runner-up 2 times
Strike rate
81.8%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures
Best vote share57.60%in 2019
Worst vote share28.60%in 1989
Average vote share46.28% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1984
Last contested2024
Votes polled here46.5 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Dakshina Kanna, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 60 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

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 — 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

11 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Captain Brijesh Chowta 7,64,132 54.00% 1 Won
2019 Nalin Kumar Kateel 7,74,285 57.60% 1 Won
2014 Nalin Kumar Kateel 6,42,739 53.20% 1 Won
2009 Nalin Kumar Kateel 4,99,385 49.10% 1 Won
2004 D. V. Sadananda Gowda 3,84,760 48.70% 1 Won
1999 V.Dhananjaya Kumar 3,53,536 48.20% 1 Won
1998 V.Dhananjaya Kumar 3,41,362 47.70% 1 Won
1996 V Dhananjaya Kumar 2,50,765 36.10% 1 Won
1991 V. Dhananjaya Kumar 2,74,700 49.10% 1 Won
1989 V.Dhanajaya Kumar 1,84,575 28.60% 2 Lost · 2nd
1984 K. Rama Bhat 1,80,091 36.80% 2 Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National CongressIndian National Congress (I)Bharatiya Lok DalJanta PartyIndependentBahujan Samaj PartyCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST)Janata DalJanata Dal (Secular)Social Democratic Party Of IndiaIndian National Congress (U)Janata Pary (JP)Jharkhand PartyKannada Nadu PartyKarnataka Vikash PartyKarunada Sevakara PartyAam Aadmi PartyJanta Party (SECULAR)Peoples Democratic PartyAkhil Bharatiya Manav Seva DasUttama Prajaakeeya PartyHindustan Janta PartyKarnataka Rashtra SamithiHindustan Janata Party

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Dakshina Kanna
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 17:35 UTC

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