Elections 98

State:	Karnataka
Constituency:	Koppal
Total Votes Polled:	726342
Winner: INC	H G Ramulu	289681
Runner Up: JD	Basavaraj Rayareddy	206559
Margin: 83122 (29%)

Elections 96

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.