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Home » Elections » Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019

Karnataka Assembly By-Election 2019

November 18, 2019 by madur

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 21st 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.

ConstituenciesBJPINCJDS
AthaniMahesh Iranagouda KumathalliGajanan MangasuliGuru Dashyal
ChikkaballapuraDr. D. SudhakarM. AnjanappaKP Bache Gowda
GokakJarkiholi Ramesh LaxmanraoLakhan Jarkiholi Ashok Pujari
HirekerurBasavanagouda PatilB.H. BannikodShivalinga Shivacharya
HosakoteN Nagaraju (M.T.B)Padmavathi SureshSharath Bachegowda (JDS independent)
HunsurA H VishwanathP. Manjunath Somashekar
KagwadShrimant Balasaheb PatilB.A. KageShrishail Parasappa Tobashetti
K R PuraByarthi BasavarajM. NarayanswamyC Krishna Murthy
KrishnarajpetKC NarayanagowdaK.B. ChandrashekarBL Devaraj
Mahalakshmi LayoutK. GopalaiahM. Shivaraj Girish Nashi
RanibennurArun Kumar MGK.B. KoliwadMallikarjun Halageri
ShivajinagarM SharavanaRizwan ArshadTanveer Ahmedullah
VijayanagaraAnand SinghVenkatrao GhorpadeNM Nabi
YellapurShivaram Hebbar Bhimmanna Naik Chaitra Gowda A
YeshvanthapuraS.T SomashekharP. NagarajT.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.

ConstituenciesDisqualified MLAsPart Resigned From
AthaniMahesh Iranagouda KumathalliINC
KagwadShrimant Balasaheb PatilINC
GokakJarkiholi Ramesh LaxmanraoINC
YellapurArabail Hebbar ShivaramINC
HirekerurBasavanagouda PatilINC
Ranibennur R Shankar S/O M RamachandraKPJP
VijayanagaraAnand SinghINC
ChikkaballapuraDr. K. SudhakarINC
K R PuraByarthi BasavarajINC
YeshvanthapuraS.T SomashekharINC
Mahalakshmi LayoutK. GopalaiahJD (S)
Shivajinagar R Roshan BaigINC
HosakoteN Nagaraju (M.T.B)INC
 KrishnarajpetNarayanagowdaJD (S)
HunsurA H VishwanathJD (S)
MaskiPratapgauda PatilINC
Raja Rajeshwari NagarMunirathna NaiduINC

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

How Much ECI Spent On Last 3 Elections

  • 2013 Assembly polls – Rs 2,865,943,504 (Rs 286 crore)
  • 2014 Loksabha polls – Rs 3,201,661,521 (Rs 320 crore)
  • 2018 Assembly polls – Rs 3,930,669,614 (Rs 393 crore)

Exit Poll Karnataka Bypoll

Channel BJP INC JDS
Power TV 123-6 0-2
Public TV8-103-51-2
Digvijaya News 24*79-112-40-2

Also See

  • 2018 Karnataka Assembly Election Results
  • 2013 Karnataka Assembly Election Results 
  • 2004 Karnataka Assembly Election Results
  • Karnataka Lok Sabha Elections 2019 – Poll Dates And More
  • 2014 Lok Sabha Elections Result From Karnataka
  • 2009 Lok Sabha Elections Result From Karnataka
  • 2004 Lok Sabha Election Result From Karnataka

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: Karnataka by-polls, Karnataka Elections

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