Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Mangalore
Total Votes Polled:	715912
Winner: BJP	V Dhananjaya Kumar	341362
Runner Up: INC	Janardhana Poojaray	334455
Margin: 6907 (2%)

Elections 96

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Mangalore
Total Votes Polled:	694171
Winner: BJP	V Dhananjaya Kumar	250765
Runner Up: INC	Janardhana Poojary	236266
Margin: 14499 (2.12%)

Till 1989 the constituency was firmly with the Congress, Janardhan Poojary winning the seat from 1977, despite the Janata wave, till 1989. He was sent packing in 1991 by the BJP's V K Dhananjaya, who repeated the performance in 1996 by a margin of around 14,000 votes.