Bharatiya Janta Party on Tumkur

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 3 OF 8 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

37.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures

Best vote share55.30%in 2024

Worst vote share19.20%in 1999

Average vote share32.55% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here27.17 Lacross all 8 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, 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

8 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	V. Somanna	7,20,946	55.30%	1	Won
2019	G. S. Basavaraj	5,96,127	47.90%	1	Won
2014	G.S.Basavaraj	3,55,827	32.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	G.S. Basavaraj	3,31,064	36.80%	1	Won
1999	B.D.Basavaraju	1,71,604	19.20%	3	Lost · 3rd
1998	Susheela Shivappa	2,05,628	23.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	K H Hanumegowda	1,86,338	24.10%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	B.B. Shivappa	1,49,033	21.00%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Janata Dal (Secular)Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Jharkhand Party Janta Party Janata Pary (JP)Independent Communist Party Of India Indian National Congress (U)Janata Dal (United)Bahujan Samaj Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Samajwadi Party Aam Aadmi Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Kannada Nadu Party Uttama Prajaakeeya Party Ambedkar Samaj Party Karunaadu Party Karnataka Rashtra Samithi Hindustan Janata Party Kannada Paksha National Maha Sabha Party