Janata Dal (Secular) on Chitradurga

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 4 contested

JDS never finished second here

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share18.40%in 2014

Worst vote share1.70%in 1999

Average vote share10.88% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1999

Last contested2014

Votes polled here4.06 Lacross all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Janata Dal (Secular) 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, 1991, 1996, 1998, 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
2014	Gullihatty.D.Shekhar	2,02,108	18.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
2009	M Rathnakar	1,46,128	17.50%	3	Lost · 3rd
2004	Taranatha Shetty Kodavoor	45,574	5.90%	3	Lost · 3rd
1999	Shrinivasa	11,816	1.70%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Indian National Congress (I)Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Janta Party Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National Congress (U)Aam Aadmi Party Janata Pary (JP)Kannada Nadu Party Karnataka Rashtra Samithi Karnataka Vikash Party Ambedkar Samaj Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Samata Party Janata Dal (United)Uttama Prajaakeeya Party Samajwadi Party Ambedkar National Congress Pyramid Party Of India Karunada Sevakara Party Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Indian Movement Party