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Constituency No. 93 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Karnataka |
District | Bellary |
Lok Sabha constituency | Bellary |
Established | 2008 |
Total electors | 238,361 [1] |
Reservation | ST |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
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Incumbent | |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2023 |
Preceded by | N. Y. Gopalakrishna |
Bellary Rural Assembly seat (or just Bellary) is one of the 224 seats in the Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Bellary Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency has been reserved for Scheduled Tribes since the 2008 delimitation. It is a stronghold of B. Sriramulu. It consists of 11 wards of Bellary City. The areas Cowl Bazar, TB Sanatorium, and Contonment belong to this constituency. It has both urban and rural voters.
The constituency comprises ward nos. 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 of Ballari Municipal Corporation lying in Ballari taluka. Urban voters in Bellary (ST) assembly were 85,124 which was 38% in the 2011 census; rural voters were 138,887 which was around 62%.
Year | Member | Party | |
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Before 2008 | See: Bellary | ||
2008 | B. Sriramulu | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2011^ | Independent | ||
2013 | Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress | ||
2014^ | N. Y. Gopalakrishna | Indian National Congress | |
2018 [2] | B. Nagendra | ||
2023 [1] |
^by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | B. Nagendra | 103,836 | 56.84 | +8.30 | |
BJP | B. Sriramulu | 74,536 | 40.80 | −6.10 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,142 | 0.63 | −0.41 | |
Majority | 29,300 | 16.04 | +14.40 | ||
Turnout | 182,692 | 76.65 | +2.26 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | B. Nagendra | 79,186 | 48.54 | ||
BJP | Sanna Pakkirappa | 76,507 | 46.9 | ||
JD(S) | D. Ramesh | 3,212 | 1.97 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,695 | 1.04 | ||
Majority | 2,679 | 1.64 | |||
Turnout | 163,128 | 74.39 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
Source: [4]