Kapu Assembly constituency

Kapu
Kapu
Constituency No. 121 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Udupi
LS constituency	Udupi Chikmagalur
Established	1956
Total electors	189,007
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Gurme Suresh Shetty
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Lalaji Mendon

Last updated September 11, 2024

Kapu Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member
Before 1956: Constituency did not exist
1957	F. X. Denis Pinto	Indian National Congress
1962	Bhaskar Shetty	Praja Socialist Party
1967		Praja Socialist Party
1972		Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member
1978	Bhaskar Shetty	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983	Vasantha V. Salian	Indian National Congress
1985
1989
1994
1999
2004	Lalaji Mendon	Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	Lalaji Mendon	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Vinay Kumar Sorake	Indian National Congress
2018 ^[3]	Lalaji Mendon	Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Gurme Suresh Shetty	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kapu^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gurme Suresh Shetty	80,559	53.23	+0.69
	INC	Vinay Kumar Sorake	67,555	44.63	+0.34
	SDPI	Mohammed Haneef	1,616	1.07
	NOTA	None of the Above	805	0.53	−0.05
Majority			13,004	8.6	+0.35
Turnout			151,355	80.08	+1.15
	BJP hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kapu^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Lalaji Mendon	75,893	52.54
	INC	Vinay Kumar Sorake	63,976	44.29
	JD(S)	M. Mansoor Ibrahim	1,393	0.96
	NOTA	None of the Above	839	0.58
Majority			11,917	8.25
Turnout			1,44,448	78.93
	BJP hold		Swing

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References

1 2 "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023" . eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 24 July 2023.
↑ "Karnataka Loksabha Elections - 2019 - Voters Count" (PDF). ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
1 2 "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.

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[election2023-1] 1 2 "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023" . eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 24 July 2023.

[electors2019-2] "Karnataka Loksabha Elections - 2019 - Voters Count" (PDF). ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

[election2018-3] 1 2 "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.

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