Bangalore South Assembly constituency

Bangalore South
Constituency No. 176 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
Division	Bangalore
District	Bangalore Urban
LS Constituency	Bangalore Rural
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent M. Krishnappa
Party	BJP
Elected year	2023

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 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

• List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

References

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2. "Karnataka 1957". eci.gov.in.
3. "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1957". elections.in.
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5. "Karnataka 1962". eci.gov.in.
6. "Karnataka Election Results 1962". www.elections.in.
7. "Karnataka Election Results 1967". www.elections.in.
8. "Assembly Election Results in 1972, Karnataka". traceall.in.
9. "Karnataka 1978". eci.gov.in.
10. "Assembly Election Results in 2008, Karnataka". traceall.in.
11. "Assembly Election Results in 2013, Karnataka". traceall.in.
12. "List of elected members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly". kar.nic. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
13. "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election -2018". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 7 September 2021.
14. "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 2008". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
15. "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 2013". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
16. "Karnataka Election Results 2018, Karnataka Assembly Elections Results 2018". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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