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State: Karnataka
Constituency: Raichur
Total Votes Polled: 497160
Winner: JD Raja Rangappa Naik 214920
Runner Up: INC A Venkatesh Nayak 178515
Margin: 36405 (7.57%)

In 1952 it voted for an Independent, and in 1967 for the Swatantra Party, but otherwise this too had been a strict Congress seat. Thus it was surprising that the seat went to the Janata Dal in 1996, but the BJP did not do all that badly, scoring 15 % of the vote.

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