Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP wins Mysore-Kodagu constituency seat

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of BJP secured 8,00,615 votes and won with a margin of 1,41,872 votes against Congress candidate M Lakshmana.

Scion of Mysore royal family and BJP candidate for Mysore-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar was accorded a rousing welcome.

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The 27th scion of erstwhile royal family of Mysuru and BJP candidate Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar secured 8,00,615 votes and won with a margin of 1,41,872 votes against Congress candidate M Lakshmana in Mysore-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency.

Lakshmana bagged 6,58,743 votes.

In 2019, BJP candidate Pratap Simha had won against Congress candidate C H Vijayshankar with a margin of 1,38, 647 by securing 52.27% votes.

With this BJP registered victory for fifth time in 16 Lok Sabha polls held in this LS Constituency so far from 1962. Congress has won 11 times in this seat.

BJP Party workers celebrated by distributing sweets near 101 Ganapathi temple at Agrahara, by bursting crackers at BJP Party office Lakshmipuram

Mysore-Kodagu LS constituency registered  70.62% polling in the Lok Sabha polls held on April 26.

As many as 14,77,571 registered citizens including 7,44,927 (69.90%) female, 7,32,605 (71.38%) male, and 29 (221.20%) transgenders voted in this Lok Sabha election.