2014 Indian general election in Karnataka

Indian general election, 2014 (Karnataka)
28 seats
Turnout	67.20% (8.38%)
	Seat results by constituency. As this is a FPTP election, seat totals are not determined proportional to each party's total vote share, but instead by the plurality in each constituency.
Prime Minister before election; Manmohan Singh ; INC	Prime Minister after election; Narendra Modi ; JP

Last updated October 29, 2025

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Karnataka for 28 Lok Sabha seats was held in a single phase on 30 April and 7 May 2014.^[1] As of 14 February 2014, the total voter strength of Karnataka is 44,694,658.^[2]

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			B. S. Yediyurappa	28

United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Mallikarjun Kharge	28

Janata Dal (Secular)

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal (Secular)			H. D. Kumaraswamy	25

List of Candidates

Constituency
Constituency
1	Chikkodi	BJP	Ramesh Katti	INC	Prakash Hukkeri	JD(S)	Shrimant Patil
2	Belgaum	BJP	Suresh Angadi	INC	Lakshmi Hebbalkar	JD(S)	Bagwan Nasir Papulsab
3	Bagalkot	BJP	P. C. Gaddigoudar	INC	Ajay Kumar Sarnaik	JD(S)	Hunashyal Ravi
4	Bijapur	BJP	Ramesh Jigajinagi	INC	Prakash Rathod	JD(S)	K. Shivram
5	Gulbarga	BJP	Revu Naik Belamgi	INC	Mallikarjun Kharge	JD(S)	D. G. Sagar
6	Raichur	BJP	K. Shivanagouda Naik	INC	B. V. Nayak	JD(S)	D. B. Nayak
7	Bidar	BJP	Bhagwanth Khuba	INC	N. Dharam Singh	JD(S)	Bandeppa Kashempur
8	Koppal	BJP	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa	INC	Basavaraj Hitnal
9	Bellary	BJP	B. Sriramulu	INC	N. Y. Hanumanthappa	JD(S)	R. Ravinayaka
10	Haveri	BJP	Udasi Shivakumar Channabasappa	INC	Saleem Ahmed	JD(S)	Ravi Menasinakai
11	Dharwad	BJP	Pralhad Joshi	INC	Vinay Kulkarni	JD(S)	Bankapur Hanumanthappa Mallappa
12	Uttara Kannada	BJP	Anantkumar Hegde	INC	Prashant R. Deshpande
13	Davanagere	BJP	G. M. Siddeswara	INC	S. S. Mallikarjun	JD(S)	Mahima J. Patel
14	Shimoga	BJP	B. S. Yeddyurappa	INC	Manjunath Bhandary	JD(S)	Geetha Shivarajkumar
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	BJP	Shobha Karandlaje	INC	K. Jayaprakash Hegde	JD(S)	V. Dhananjay Kumar
16	Hassan	BJP	C. H. Vijayashankar	INC	Manju A. M.	JD(S)	H. D. Deve Gowda
17	Dakshina Kannada	BJP	Nalin Kumar Kateel	INC	Janardhana Poojary
18	Chitradurga	BJP	Janardhana Swamy	INC	B. N. Chandrappa	JD(S)	Gullihatty D. Shekhar
19	Tumkur	BJP	G. S. Basavaraj	INC	S. P. Muddahanumegowda	JD(S)	A. Krishnappa
20	Mandya	BJP	Prof. B. Shivalingaiah	INC	Ramya	JD(S)	C. S. Puttaraju
21	Mysore	BJP	Pratap Simha	INC	Adagur H. Vishwanath	JD(S)	Chandrashekaraiah
22	Chamarajanagar	BJP	A. R. Krishnamurthy	INC	R. Dhruvanarayana	JD(S)	Kote M. Shivanna
23	Bangalore Rural	BJP	P. Muniraju Gowda	INC	D. K. Suresh	JD(S)	R. Prabhakara Reddy
24	Bangalore North	BJP	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	INC	C. Narayanaswamy	JD(S)	Abdul Azeem
25	Bangalore Central	BJP	P. C. Mohan	INC	Rizwan Arshad	JD(S)	Nandini Alva
26	Bangalore South	BJP	Ananth Kumar	INC	Nandan Nilekani	JD(S)	Ruth Manorama
27	Chikkballapur	BJP	B. N. Bache Gowda	INC	M. Veerappa Moily	JD(S)	H. D. Kumaraswamy
28	Kolar	BJP	E. M. Narayanaswamy	INC	K. H. Muniyappa	JD(S)	Kolar Kesava

Opinion polling

Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size	INC	BJP	JD(S)	AAP	Others
Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size
Aug–Oct 2013	^[3]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	24,284	13	12	3	0	0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	^[4]	India Today-CVoter	21,792	12	13	0	0	3
Jan–Feb 2014	^[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	14,000	14	11	2	1	0
March 2014	^[6]	NDTV- Hansa Research	46,571	6	20	2	0	0
March–April 2014	^[7]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	825	12–18	7–13	1 – 4 (Including Others)	0	1 – 4 (Including JD(S))
April 2014	^[8]	NDTV- Hansa Research	24,000	14	12	3	0	0

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below^[1] –

Polling Day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Voting Percentage
1	5	17 April	Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellary, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada] [karwar , Davanagere, Shimoga, Udupi Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkballapur, Kolar	67.2^[9]

Results

BJP won 17 seats. INC won 9 seats and JD (S) won 2 seats.


17	9	2
BJP	INC	JD(S)

Name of Party	Vote Share %	Change	Seats won	Changes
Bharatiya Janata Party	43.00%	−1.37	17	2
Indian National Congress	40.80%	+3.15	9	3
Janata Dal (Secular)	11.00%	−2.57%	2	1
Others	5.2%	+0.79	+0

Source: http://eciresults.nic.in/PartyWiseResultS10.htm?st=S10 Archived 21 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine ^[1]

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Constituency Wise Results

No.	Constituency	Turnout%	Name of elected M.P.		Margin
1	Chikkodi	74.30	Prakash Babanna Hukkeri	Indian National Congress	3,003
2	Belgaum	68.25	Suresh Angadi	Bharatiya Janata Party	75,860
3	Bagalkot	68.81	P. C. Gaddigoudar	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,16,560
4	Bijapur (SC)	59.58	Ramesh Jigajinagi	Bharatiya Janata Party	69,819
5	Gulbarga (SC)	57.96	Mallikarjun Kharge	Indian National Congress	74,733
6	Raichur (ST)	58.32	B. V. Nayak	Indian National Congress	1,499
7	Bidar	60.16	Bhagwanth Khuba	Bharatiya Janata Party	92,222
8	Koppal	65.63	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa	Bharatiya Janata Party	32,414
9	Bellary (ST)	70.29	B. Sriramulu (Resigned on 18 May 2018)^[10]	Bharatiya Janata Party	85,144
10	Haveri	71.62	Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi	Bharatiya Janata Party	87,571
11	Dharwad	65.99	Pralhad Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,13,657
12	Uttara Kannada	69.04	Ananthkumar Hegde	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,40,700
13	Davanagere	73.23	G. M. Siddeshwara	Bharatiya Janata Party	17,607
14	Shimoga	72.36	B. S. Yeddyurappa (Resigned on 18 May 2018)^[11]	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,63,305
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	74.56	Shobha Karandlaje	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,81,643
16	Hassan	73.49	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal (Secular)	1,00,462
17	Dakshina Kannada	77.15	Nalin Kumar Kateel	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,43,709
18	Chitradurga (SC)	66.07	B. N. Chandrappa	Indian National Congress	1,01,291
19	Tumkur	72.57	S. P. Muddahanume Gowda	Indian National Congress	74,041
20	Mandya	71.47	C. S. Puttaraju (Resigned on 21 May 2018)^[11]	Janata Dal (Secular)	5,518
21	Mysore	67.30	Pratap Simha	Bharatiya Janata Party	31,608
22	Chamarajanagar (SC)	72.85	R. Dhruvanarayana	Indian National Congress	1,41,182
23	Bangalore Rural	66.45	D. K. Suresh	Indian National Congress	2,31,480
24	Bangalore North	56.53	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,29,764
25	Bangalore Central	55.64	P. C. Mohan	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,37,500
26	Bangalore South	55.75	Ananth Kumar	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,28,575
27	Chikballapur	76.21	Veerappa Moily	Indian National Congress	9,520
28	Kolar (SC)	75.51	K. H. Muniyappa	Indian National Congress	47,850

Bye-election

No.	Constituency	Name of Newly elected M.P.
9	Bellary (ST)	V. S. Ugrappa (Elected on 6 November 2018)	Indian National Congress
14	Shimoga	B. Y. Raghavendra (Elected on 6 November 2018)	Bharatiya Janata Party
20	Mandya	L. R. Shivarame Gowda (Elected on 6 November 2018)	Janata Dal (Secular)

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2018 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	132	104
	Indian National Congress	77	80
	Janata Dal (Secular)	15	37
	Others	0	3
Total		224

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