FORMER chief minister Veerappa Moily, won from the Congress bastion of Chikballapur, picking up 51,381 votes more than his nearest rival Aswathnarayana of the BJP.
Moily, who is new to the constituency had the support of Congress legislators.
Moily received 3,90,500 votes while Aswathnarayana got 3,39,119 votes. Manohar of the JD(S) got 1,86,075 votes.
Following delimitation of the constituency, Assembly segments like Hoskote, Devanahalli and Doddaballapur, which were parts of Bangalore Rural were included in Chikballapur.
Congress' poster boy Rahul Gandhi had campaigned here.
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BJP state unit president and party candidate for the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, DV Sadananda Gowda defeated his nearest rival K Jayaprakash Hegde of the Congress, by a margin of 27,018 votes. This is Hegde's second successive defeat. He lost to BJP's Haladi Srinivas Shetty in the Kundapura Assembly elections last year.
Gowda bagged 4,01,441 votes, while Hegde got 3,74,423 votes. Gowda had been maintaining a respectable lead throughout the 18 rounds. Speaking to Express, Gowda said he owed his victory to the party workers' efforts and the poll strategists' game-plan. "Before the elections, we were expecting a lead of over one lakh. Internal post-poll predictions too expected at least a 50,000 lead.''