Ranibennur Assembly constituency

Ranebennur
Constituency No. 87 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Haveri
Lok Sabha constituency	Haveri
Established	1951
Total electors	237,234 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prakash Koliwad
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Arunkumar Guththur

Ranebennur Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India. ^{[2] [3]}

It is part of Haveri district. Prakash Koliwad is the current MLA from Ranebennur.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Bombay State

Year	Member	Party
1952	Kallanagouda Fakirgouda Patil		Indian National Congress

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1957	Kallanagouda Fakiragouda Patil		Indian National Congress
	Sambrani Yallawwa
1962	Yallawa Dharmappa Sambrani
1967	B. N. Lingappa		Praja Socialist Party
1972	K. B. Koliwad		Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978	Nalawagal Somalingappa Hanumantappa		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983	Patil Basanagouda Guranagouda		Janata Party
1985	K. B. Koliwad		Indian National Congress
1989
1994	Karjagi Veerappa Sannatammappa		Janata Dal
1999	K. B. Koliwad		Indian National Congress
2004	G. Shivanna		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008
2013 [4]	K. B. Koliwad		Indian National Congress
2018 [5] [6]	R. Shankar		Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party
2019 [a]	Arunkumar Guththur		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023 [7]	Prakash Koliwad		Indian National Congress

1. by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Ranibennur ^{[1] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Prakash Koliwad	71,830	37.21	−5.19
	BJP	Arunkumar Guttur	62,030	32.14	−23.90
	NCP	R. Shankar	37,559	19.46
	Independent	Santoshkumar Patil	11,395	5.90
	JD(S)	Manjunath Goudashivannanavara	5,840	3.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,584	0.82	−0.12
Majority			9,800	5.07	−8.57
Turnout			193,020	81.36	+8.37
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2019 by-election

2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections: Ranebennur ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arunkumar Guttur	95,438	56.04	+28.73
	INC	K. B. Koliwad	72,216	42.40	+9.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,608	0.94	+0.15
Majority			23,222	13.64	+11.22
Turnout			170,303	72.99	−4.86
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Ranebennur ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KPJP	R. Shankar	63,910	35.64
	INC	K. B. Koliwad	59,572	33.22
	BJP	Dr. Kelagar Basavaraj	48,973	27.31
	JD(S)	Shripad Sawkar	1,219	0.68
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,420	0.79
Majority			4,338	2.42
Turnout			1,79,321	77.85
	KPJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• Haveri district

References

1. "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023" . eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 24 July 2023.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
3. "Fourteenth Karnataka Legislative Assembly". kla.kar.nic.in. Karnataka Legislative Assembly . Retrieved 3 February 2021.
4. "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2013". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 7 September 2021.
5. "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
6. "When caste equations come into play, disqualified MLA gets ignored". The Hindu. 21 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
7. "Ranibennur Election Results 2023 INC's Prakash Koliwad defeats BJP's Arunkumar Guttur". CNBCTV18. 13 May 2023. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
8. "Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023: Ranibennur". Election Commission of India. 13 May 2023. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
9. "Ranibennur Constituency Election Results 2019". The Times of India. 13 May 2023. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.

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