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State: Karnataka
Constituency: Davangere
Total Votes Polled: 747950
Winner: BJP G Mallikarjunappa 268962
Runner Up: JD S H Patel 171875
Margin: 97087 (13.29%)

After remaining in the Congress camp right from 1952, the constituency served notice of its changing loyalties when the runner-up in 1991 was the BJP's candidate. True to word, in the 1996 polls it was the BJP's G Mallikarjunappa who romped home, while the sitting Congress MP was found himself in the third position.

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