Bangalore South Assembly constituency

Bangalore South Assembly seat is one of the seats in Karnataka state assembly in India. It is part of the Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha seat. Notably, the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency does not contain the Bangalore South Assembly constituency.

Bangalore South
Constituency No. 176 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKarnataka
DivisionBangalore
DistrictBangalore Urban
LS constituencyBangalore Rural
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Elected year2023

Bangalore South Assembly seat was created when delimitation of seats was carried out in 2008. While there are four Lok Sabha seats with the name of the city 'Bangalore' in their title, Bangalore South is the only Assembly seat among dozens in the city boundary which has the word 'Bangalore' in its title.

Members of Assembly

Election Assembly Name Party
Mysore State
1952 1st A. V. Narasimha Reddy[1] Indian National Congress
B. T. Kempa Raj
1957 2nd A. V. Narasimha Reddy[2][3]
B. Basavalingappa[4]
1962 3rd D. Munichinnappa Independent[5][6]
1967-1973 : Seat did not exist[7][8]
Karnataka State
1973-2008 : Seat did not exist[9]
2008[10] 13th M. Krishnappa Bharatiya Janata Party
2013[11][12] 14th
2018[13] 15th
2023 16th

Election results

2008

2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Bangalore South [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP M Krishnappa 71,114
INC Sadananda M 36,979
Majority
Turnout
BJP win (new seat)

2013

2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Bangalore South [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP M Krishnappa 102,207
JD(S) R. Prabhakara Reddy 72,045
Majority
Turnout
BJP hold Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Bangalore South [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP M Krishnappa 152,427 47.74
INC R K Ramesh 1,22,068 38.24
JD(S) R Prabhakar Reddy 36,138 11.32
NOTA None of the Above 3,952 1.24
Majority 30,359
Turnout 3,19,255 52.86
BJP hold Swing

See also

References

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