Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Kolar
Total Votes Polled:	780806
Winner: INC	K H Muniyappa	304261
Runner Up: JD	Balaji Channaiah	226289
Margin: 77972 (26%)

Elections 96

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Kolar (SC)
Total Votes Polled:	714163
Winner: INC	K H Muniyappa	310349
Runner Up: JD	Balaji Channaiah	293307
Margin: 17042 (2.44%)

For a constituency that stood by the Congress even in the 1977 Janata wave, it voted the Janata Party in 1984 against the Rajiv wave, the only time ever that it has not sent a Congressman to Parliament.