Bijapur Lok Sabha constituency

Bijapur
Lok Sabha constituency
Bijapur Lok Sabha Constituency Map
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bijapur
Assembly constituencies	Muddebihal Devar Hippargi Basavana Bagevadi Babaleshwar Bijapur City Nagthan Indi Sindagi
Established	1952
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Bijapur (Vijayapura) is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes. ^[1]

Assembly segments

Bijapur Lok Sabha constituency presently comprises the following eight Legislative Assembly segments: ^[1]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		Party Leading (in 2024)
26	Muddebihal	Bijapur	C. S. Nadagouda		INC		BJP
27	Devar Hippargi		Rajugouda Patil		JD(S)		BJP
28	Basavana Bagevadi		Shivanand Patil		INC		BJP
29	Babaleshwar		M. B. Patil		INC		BJP
30	Bijapur City		Basangouda Patil Yatnal		BJP		INC
31	Nagthan (SC)		Vittal Katakadhond		INC		BJP
32	Indi		Yashvantharaya Gouda Patil		INC		BJP
33	Sindagi		Ashok M. Managuli		INC		BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Name	Party
1952	Rajaram Girdharilal Dubey		Indian National Congress
1957	Murigappa Siddappa Sugandhi		Independent
1962	Rajaram Girdharilal Dubey		Indian National Congress
1967	G.D. Patil		Swatantra Party
1971	Bhimappa Choudhari		Indian National Congress
1977	Kalingappa Choudhari
1980			Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Shivashankareppa Guraddi		Janata Party
1989	Basagondappa Gudadinni		Indian National Congress
1991
1996	Basanagouda Rudragouda Patil		Janata Dal
1998	M. B. Patil		Indian National Congress
1999	Basangouda Patil Yatnal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2004
2009	Ramesh Jigajinagi
2014
2019
2024

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Bijapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Jigajinagi	672,781	51.91	5.31
	INC	Raju Alagur	595,552	45.95	11.95
	NOTA	None of the above	7,502	0.58	0.53
Majority			77,229	5.96	17.26
Turnout			1,297,073	66.59	4.70
	BJP hold		Swing	5.31

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bijapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	635,867	57.22	+9.42
	JD(S)	Sunita Chavan	377,829	34.00	+28.05
	IND.	Dhareppa Mahadev Ardhavar	23,706	2.13
	BSP	Pujari Shrinath Sangapaa	23,442	2.11
	NOTA	None of the above	12,286	1.11
Majority			258,038	23.22	+16.02
Turnout			1,112,493	61.89
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bijapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	471,757	48.80
	INC	Prakash Rathod	401,938	41.58
	JD(S)	K. Shivram	57,551	5.95
	NOTA	None of the above	8,287	0.86
Majority			69,819	7.22
Turnout			966,797	59.58
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Vijayapura district, Karnataka
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 206.

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