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State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Dharwad North
Total Votes Polled:	598156
Winner: BJP	Vijay Sankeshwar	228572
Runner Up: JD	Munavalli Shankaranna Ishwarappa	188221
Margin: 40351 (6.91%)

D K Naikar of the Congress represented this constituency four times till 1991, but in 1996 he was relegated to the third position, after the BJP and the Janata Dal. The BJP candidate defeated his JD rival by around 40,000 votes.