Janta Party on Tumkur

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 2 contested

JP runner-up 2 times

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share42.70%in 1984

Worst vote share27.20%in 1980

Average vote share34.95% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1980

Last contested1984

Votes polled here3.59 Lacross all 2 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

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, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 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

2 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1984	K. B. Mallappa	2,33,519	42.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
1980	B.B. Shivappa	1,25,221	27.20%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Janata Dal (Secular)Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Jharkhand 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