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State: Karnataka
Constituency: Bangalore South
Total Votes Polled: 727220
Winner: BJP Ananth Kumar 251235
Runner Up: INC Varalakshmi Gundurao 229267
Margin: 21968 (3.07%)

R Gundu Rao's constituency in 1989, the voters rebuffed him in the next election and plumbed for the BJP. In 1996, the Congress fielded Gundu Rao's wife Varalakshmi, and the voters stuck by the BJP.

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