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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.

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