2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections

2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly By-election

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15 vacant seats in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Turnout	70%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader B. S. Yediyurappa Siddaramaiah H. D. Kumaraswamy Party BJP INC JD(S) Leader's seat Shikaripura Badami Channapatna Last election 0 11 3 Seats won 12 2 0 Seat change 12 9 3 Percentage 50.32% 31.50% 11.90% Swing 18.82pp 13.96pp 4.87pp
Chief Minister before election B. S. Yediyurappa BJP Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa BJP

By-elections to fifteen state assembly constituencies were held in Karnataka on 5 December 2019, and results were announced on 9 December. As the ruling party, BJP needed to win 6 out of the 15 seats to maintain its majority. BJP won 12 seats, Congress won two, JD(S) failed to open its account, and one seat was won by a rebel BJP leader who contested as an independent.

Election schedule

Scheduled

By-elections to fifteen state assembly constituencies were originally to be held on 21 October 2019 together with Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections. The counting of votes was to be on 24 October 2019. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Event	Date	Day
Date for Nominations	23 Sep 2019	Monday
Last Date for filing Nominations	30 Sep 2019	Monday
Date for scrutiny of nominations	1 Oct 2019	Tuesday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	3 Oct 2019	Thursday
Date of poll	21 Oct 2019	Monday
Date of counting	24 Oct 2019	Thursday
Date before which the election shall be completed	24 Oct 2019	Sunday

Rescheduled

The Election Commission on 27 September rescheduled the by-elections to 15 Karnataka assembly constituencies to 5 December and will declare the results no later than 11 December. ^[4]

Event	Date	Day
Date for Nominations	11 Nov 2019	Monday
Last Date for filing Nominations	18 Nov 2019	Monday
Date for scrutiny of nominations	19 Nov 2019	Tuesday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	21 Nov 2019	Thursday
Date of poll	5 Dec 2019	Thursday
Date of counting	9 Dec 2019	Monday
Date before which the election shall be completed	11 Dec 2019	Wednesday

List of Candidates

Constituency
		BJP			INC			JD(S)
3	Athani		BJP	Mahesh Kumathalli		INC	Gajanan Bhalachandra Mangasuli		Did not contest
4	Kagwad		BJP	Shrimant Patil		INC	Bharamgouda Alagouda Kage		JD(S)	Kallappa Paris Magennavar
9	Gokak		BJP	Ramesh Jarkiholi		INC	Lakhan Laxmanrao Jarkiholi		Did not contest
81	Yellapur		BJP	Arbail Shivaram Hebbar		INC	Bhimanna T. Naik		JD(S)	Ravindra A. Naik
86	Hirekerur		BJP	B. C. Patil		INC	B. H. Bannikod		Did not contest
87	Ranibennur		BJP	Arunkumar Guttur		INC	K. B. Koliwad		Did not contest
90	Vijayanagara		BJP	Anand Singh		INC	V. Y. Ghorpade		JD(S)	N. M. Nabi
141	Chikballapur		BJP	K. Sudhakar		INC	M. Anjinappa		JD(S)	M. Radhakrishna
151	K. R. Pura		BJP	Byrati Basavaraj		INC	M. Narayanaswamy		JD(S)	C. Krishnamurthy
153	Yeshvanthapura		BJP	S. T. Somashekhar		INC	T. N. Javarayi Gowda		JD(S)	P. Nagaraj
156	Mahalakshmi Layout		BJP	K. Gopalaiah		INC	M. Shivaraju		JD(S)	Girish K. Nashi
162	Shivajinagar		BJP	M. Saravana		INC	Rizwan Arshad		JD(S)	Tanveer Ahmed Ullah
178	Hosakote		BJP	M. T. B. Nagaraj		INC	Padmavathi Suresh		Did not contest
192	Krishnarajpete		BJP	Narayana Gowda		INC	K. B. Chandrashekar		JD(S)	B. L. Devaraj
212	Hunasuru		BJP	Adagur H. Vishwanath		INC	H. P. Manjunath		JD(S)	Devarahalli Somashekara

Surveys and polls

Seat projections

Poll type	Publishing Date	Polling Agency					Majority
			BJP	INC	JD(S)	Others
Exit polls [5]	5 December 2019	Karnataka Power TV	8-12	3-6	0-2	0-1	1-5
		BTV	9	3	2	1	2
		Public TV	8-10	3-5	1-2	0-1	1-3

Results

Results by party

Party		Vote Share		Votes		Seats
%	+/-%	No.	+/-	No.	%	+/-
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	50.32	18.82	1,291,049	457,696	12	80.00	12
	Indian National Congress (INC)	31.50	13.96	808,114	394,560	2	13.33	9
	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))	11.90	4.87	305,307	138,325	0	0.00	3
	Uttama Prajaakeeya Party (UPP)	0.43	0.43	10,928	10,928	0	0.00	0
	Karnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS)	0.11	0.11	2,714	2,714	0	0.00	0
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	0.09	0.09	2,417	2,417	0	0.00	0
	Independent (IND)	4.27	2.01	109,530	49,852	1	6.67	1
	Others	0.38	2.84	9,671	75,531	0	0.00	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	0.94	0.17	24,073	3,599
Soure: Karnataka CEO [6]

Results by constituency

S.No	Assembly Constituency		Winner				Runner-up				Margin
	No.	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	Candidate	Party		Votes
1	3	Athani	Mahesh Kumathalli		Bharatiya Janata Party	99,203	Gajanan Bhalachandra Mangasuli		Indian National Congress	59,214	39,989
2	4	Kagwad	Shrimant Balasaheb Patil		Bharatiya Janata Party	76,952	Bharamgouda Alagouda Kage		Indian National Congress	58,395	18,557
3	9	Gokak	Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao		Bharatiya Janata Party	87,450	Lakhan Laxmanrao Jarkiholi		Indian National Congress	58,444	29,006
4	81	Yellapur	Arabail Hebbar Shivaram		Bharatiya Janata Party	80,442	Bhimanna T. Naik		Indian National Congress	49,034	31,408
5	86	Hirekerur	B.C. Patil		Bharatiya Janata Party	85,562	Bannikod Basappa Hanumantappa		Indian National Congress	56,495	29,067
6	87	Ranebennur	Arunkumar Guththur (M M P)		Bharatiya Janata Party	95,438	K B Koliwad		Indian National Congress	72,216	23,222
7	90	Vijayanagara	Anand Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	85,477	V.Y. Ghorpade		Indian National Congress	55,352	30,125
8	141	Chikkaballapur	K. Sudhakar		Bharatiya Janata Party	84,389	M. Anjanappa		Indian National Congress	49,588	34,801
9	151	Krishnarajapuram	B.A.Basavaraja		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,39,879	M.Narayanaswamy		Indian National Congress	76,436	63,443
10	153	Yeshvanthapura	S. T. Somashekar		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,44,722	T.N. Javarayi Gowda		Janata Dal (Secular)	1,17,023	27,699
11	156	Mahalakshmi Layout	K Gopalaiah		Bharatiya Janata Party	85,889	M. Shivaraju		Indian National Congress	31,503	54,386
12	162	Shivajinagar	Rizwan Arshad		Indian National Congress	49,890	M. Saravana		Bharatiya Janata Party	36,369	13,521
13	178	Hoskote	Sharath Kumar Bachegowda		Independent	81,671	M T B Nagaraj		Bharatiya Janata Party	70,185	13,521
14	192	Krishnarajpet	Narayan Gowda		Bharatiya Janata Party	66,094	B. L. Devaraj		Janata Dal (Secular)	56,363	9,731
15	212	Hunsur	H. P. Manjunath		Indian National Congress	92,725	Adagur H. Vishwanath		Bharatiya Janata Party	52,998	39,727

Gains by BJP

The bypolls were required after 15 MLAs, from Congress and Janata Dal (S), resigned to bring down Kumaraswamy's coalition government.

BJP won 12 of the available 15 seats. After Roshan Beg from Shivajinagar had resigned, BJP did not allow him to join them; Beg was unable to contest the bypoll and Congress retained the seat.

From Hoskote, MTB Nagaraj resigned his seat and joined BJP, who had nominated him from his former seat. Nagaraj was challenged by a BJP rebel, who won the seat.

From Hunsur (Hunasuru), Adagur Vishwanath had previously won on JD(S) ticket, defeating Manjunath of Congress. Vishwanath resigned and contested as a BJP candidate, however Manjunath managed to win the seat for Congress.

See also

• Elections in Karnataka
• Government of Karnataka
• Karnataka Legislative Assembly

References

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3. "Schedule for bye-elections to fill casual vacancy in the Parliamentary Constituency & State Legislative Assemblies of various States/UTs". Election Commission of India.
4. "Karnataka byelections rescheduled; voting on December 5, results on December 9 | Bengaluru News". The Times of India. 27 September 2019.
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6. "Karnataka State Result Status" (PDF). Retrieved 24 August 2021.