Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Bangalore South
Total Votes Polled:	810135
Winner: BJP	Ananth Kumar	429648
Runner Up: INC	D P Sharma	249601
Margin: 180047 (42%)

Elections 96

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.