Bangalore South Assembly constituency

Vidhana Sabha constituency in Karnataka, India

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
Total electors	6,95,797
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
Mysore State
1952	1st	A. V. Narasimha Reddy^[1]	Indian National Congress
1952	1st	B. T. Kempa Raj
1957	2nd	A. V. Narasimha Reddy^[2]^[3]
1957	2nd	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

References

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