Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Davangere
Total Votes Polled:	828009
Winner: INC	Shamanur Shiva Shankarappa	343704
Runner Up: BJP	G Mallikarjunapa	332372
Margin: 11332(3%)

Elections 96

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Davangere
Total Votes Polled:	747950
Winner: BJP	G Mallikarjunappa	268962
Runner Up: JD	S H Patel	171875
Margin: 97087 (13.29%)

After remaining in the Congress camp right from 1952, the constituency served notice of its changing loyalties when the runner-up in 1991 was the BJP's candidate. True to word, in the 1996 polls it was the BJP's G Mallikarjunappa who romped home, while the sitting Congress MP was found himself in the third position.