Gowda fought and won from his traditional stronghold of Hassan constituency against rival Hanume Gowda of BJP.
BJP's Siddeswara G M clocked the lowest in margin -- 2,024 votes -- over Congress candidate Mallikarjun S S from Davangere.
Besides Gowda, four candidates managed to win by more than one lakh votes - H D Kumaraswamy from Bangalore rural (1.30 lakh), Janardhana Swamy from Chitradurga (1.36 lakh), Prahlad Joshi from Dharwad (1.38 lakh) and Angadi Suresh Channabasappa from Belgaum (1.19 lakh).
Udasi Shivkumar Chanabasappa of BJP won by 88,220 votes and Shivaramagouda Shivanagouda, also of BJP, secured a margin of 81,789 votes in Koppal, came in the second rung.
Published 17 May 2009, 11:12 IST