Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019

Karnataka assembly by-elections for 15 seats vacated by rebel JDS – INC MLAs was conducted on December 5, 2019, according to a new announcement from the Election Commission.

The counting will be done on December 9, 2019. The ECI had on September 23rd announced that the by-polls will be held on October 21st and then decided to defer the dates.

Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019 Results

Assembly by-elections were deferred until the Supreme Court passed an order on the plea of disqualified MLAs. The 15 constituencies were supposed to go to polls on 21^st October and the counting was scheduled on 24th of the same month.

Though 17 rebel Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs were disqualified by the then speaker (KR Ramesh Kumar – INC), only 15 constituencies were supposed to go into polls. Elections in Muski (Raichur district) and R.R. Nagar (Bengaluru southwest) has been withheld due to litigation.

The strength of the assembly will be 222, post the by-polls. 106 MLAs including independent MLA H Nagesh supports the ruling party BJP. The party needs to win six seats to get the majority.

Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019 – Candidates

A total of 248 candidates including 128 independents have filed nomination for the 15 assembly by-elections. Here is a list of candidates from 3 major political parties in the state.

Constituencies	BJP	INC	JDS
Athani	Mahesh Iranagouda Kumathalli	Gajanan Mangasuli	Guru Dashyal
Chikkaballapura	Dr. D. Sudhakar	M. Anjanappa	KP Bache Gowda
Gokak	Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao	Lakhan Jarkiholi	Ashok Pujari
Hirekerur	Basavanagouda Patil	B.H. Bannikod	Shivalinga Shivacharya
Hosakote	N Nagaraju (M.T.B)	Padmavathi Suresh	Sharath Bachegowda (JDS independent)
Hunsur	A H Vishwanath	P. Manjunath	Somashekar
Kagwad	Shrimant Balasaheb Patil	B.A. Kage	Shrishail Parasappa Tobashetti
K R Pura	Byarthi Basavaraj	M. Narayanswamy	C Krishna Murthy
Krishnarajpet	KC Narayanagowda	K.B. Chandrashekar	BL Devaraj
Mahalakshmi Layout	K. Gopalaiah	M. Shivaraj	Girish Nashi
Ranibennur	Arun Kumar MG	K.B. Koliwad	Mallikarjun Halageri
Shivajinagar	M Sharavana	Rizwan Arshad	Tanveer Ahmedullah
Vijayanagara	Anand Singh	Venkatrao Ghorpade	NM Nabi
Yellapur	Shivaram Hebbar	Bhimmanna Naik	Chaitra Gowda A
Yeshvanthapura	S.T Somashekhar	P. Nagaraj	T.N Javarayi Gowda

Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019 – Constituencies Vacated

The constituencies were vacated due to the rebel MLAs resignation from their respective parties. And in a recent order, SC allowed the disqualified MLAs to contest in the election.

Constituencies	Disqualified MLAs	Part Resigned From
Athani	Mahesh Iranagouda Kumathalli	INC
Kagwad	Shrimant Balasaheb Patil	INC
Gokak	Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao	INC
Yellapur	Arabail Hebbar Shivaram	INC
Hirekerur	Basavanagouda Patil	INC
Ranibennur	R Shankar S/O M Ramachandra	KPJP
Vijayanagara	Anand Singh	INC
Chikkaballapura	Dr. K. Sudhakar	INC
K R Pura	Byarthi Basavaraj	INC
Yeshvanthapura	S.T Somashekhar	INC
Mahalakshmi Layout	K. Gopalaiah	JD (S)
Shivajinagar	R Roshan Baig	INC
Hosakote	N Nagaraju (M.T.B)	INC
Krishnarajpet	Narayanagowda	JD (S)
Hunsur	A H Vishwanath	JD (S)
Maski	Pratapgauda Patil	INC
Raja Rajeshwari Nagar	Munirathna Naidu	INC

Karnataka Election Expense And Interesting Facts

Based on ECI’s data

Rs 26.32 crores are spent on this by-election
2018 Assembly elections cost – Rs 393 crore
2018 Assembly elections cost per constituency – Rs 1,754,763,220 ( Rs 175 crore )
In the 2018 Assembly polls , BJP spent – Rs 12, 26,897,742 (Rs 122 crore) and INC Rs 344,880,318 (Rs 34 crore)
It is estimated that on average BJP spent Rs 54 lakh on each constituency, while INC spent Rs 15 lakh
During 2018, Rs 93 crore in cash, 540,762.89 litres of liquor and other items worth Rs 66.48 crore were seized