Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Mandya
Total Votes Polled:	795244
Winner: JD	Ambareesh	431439
Runner Up: INC	G Made Gowda	250916
Margin: 180523 (42%)

Elections 96

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Mandya
Total Votes Polled:	745896
Winner: JD	Krishna	335852
Runner Up: INC	G Madegowda	302466
Margin: 33386 (4.57%)

One of the few constituencies to return the Janata Party in the Rajiv wave in 1984, that was also the only time the constituency departed from its custom of voting Congress. Till 1996, that is, when the Janata Dal was voted in preference to the sitting Congress MP.