Karnataka Election 2023: Bangalore South Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Bangalore South Assembly Constituency 2023
Bangalore South is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Bangalore district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Bangalore South will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Bangalore South assembly seat had 5,81,408 registered voters, 3,11,427 were male and 2,69,878 were female voters. 2.7% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 14 candidates in the fray from Bangalore South constituency. Bangalore South was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's M Krishnappa won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's R K Ramesh by a margin of 30,417 votes.
The top three candidates split 98.5% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's M Krishnappa got a total of 1,52,469 votes, while Indian National Congress's R K Ramesh secured 1,22,052 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate R Prabhakar Reddy grabbed the third spot with 36,164 votes. The top three parties got 48.3%, 38.7% and 11.5% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party's M. Krishnappa outperformed Janata Dal (Secular)'s R. Prabhakara Reddy by 30,162 votes.