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State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Koppal
Total Votes Polled:	623051
Winner: JD	Basavaraj Raya Reddy	276914
Runner Up: INC	Anwari Basavaraj Patil	201073
Margin: 75841 (12.56%)

True to style, the seat voted non-Congress only twice, but in 1996 it turned to the Janata Dal with a vengeance, with the sitting Congress MP winning only 33.30 % of the vote.