Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency

Bangalore South
Lok Sabha constituency
Bengaluru South Lok Sabha Constituency map
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKarnataka
Assembly constituenciesGovindraj Nagar
Vijay Nagar
Chickpet
Basavanagudi
Padmanabhanagar
B.T.M. Layout
Jayanagar
Bommanahalli
Established1977
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2024

Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state, in Southern India. Currently the seat is held by Tejasvi Surya of Bharatiya Janata Party who won against Sowmya Reddy of Indian National Congress by a margin of 277083 votes in the 2024 Indian general election.

Assembly segments

At present, Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following 8 Legislative Assembly segments:

No Name District Member Party Party Leading
(in 2024)
166 Govindrajanagara Bangalore Urban Priya Krishna INC BJP
167 Vijayanagara M. Krishnappa
169 Chickpet Uday B. Garudachar BJP INC
170 Basavanagudi L. A. Ravi Subramanya BJP
171 Padmanabhanagara R. Ashoka
172 B.T.M. Layout Ramalinga Reddy INC
173 Jayanagar C. K. Ramamurthy BJP INC
175 Bommanahalli Satish Reddy BJP

Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1951[1] T. Madiah Gowda Indian National Congress
1957-1977 : Seat did not exist. See Bangalore City and Bangalore
1977 K. S. Hegde Janata Party
1980 T. R. Shamanna
1984 V. S. Krishna Iyer
1989 R. Gundu Rao Indian National Congress
1991 K. Venkatagiri Gowda Bharatiya Janata Party
1996 Ananth Kumar
1998
1999
2004
2009
2014[2]
2019 L. S. Tejasvi Surya
2024

History of the constituency

Post independence Bangalore south constituency used to come under Mysore state. Mysore state was a state within the Union of India from 1947 until 1956. T. Madiah Gowda, freedom fighter, a lawyer by profession won in 1st lok sabha election from Bangalore south constituency.

As a result of the States Reorganisation Act on 1 November 1956 few constituencies were added to Karnataka state and Bangalore north and Bangalore south constituencies were merged to make Bangalore constituency. H.C Dasappa got elected from Bangalore constituency from 1957 to 1962. He also served as the Railway Minister of India under Jawaharlal Nehru in 1963-64. Later former Chief Minister Kengal Hanumanthiah won this constituency three consecutive times.

Post Emergency and reorganization of constituencies across the country, this Lok Sabha seat came into existence as Bangalore South in 1977. Since then this constituency has gone to the polls 12 times. BJP has won 8 times, Janata Party 3 times and Congress just once. BJP leader Ananth Kumar[3] won 6 consecutive terms from this constituency.

In 1977, K S Hegde[4] (incidentally his son is the famous retired judge of Supreme Court, Santosh Hegde) [5] won this seat against former Chief Minister Kengal Hanumanthiah (who was instrumental in building Vidhana Soudha). He was a former judge of the Supreme Court who resigned in the mid 70's when he and 2 other judges were superseded in the Supreme Court, apparently for their past judgments against the government of the day.[6] This was the only seat other than Hassan won by the Janata party in Karnataka. He went on to be the first non Congress Speaker of the Lok Sabha and was known for his disciplined and non-partisan tenure.[6]

In 1980, T. R. Shamanna,[7] freedom fighter, an educationist, 4 time MLA before, and better known as Cycle Shamanna won the seat by Janata Party in that election. This was the only parliamentary seat won by Janata Party in Karnataka in that election.[8] In this elections of 1980, Congress came back to power at the center with Indira Gandhi back at the helm.

In 1984, V. S. Krishna Iyer won the elections. The elections were necessitated due to the murder of Indira Gandhi sitting prime minister. Rajiv Gandhi called for elections and Congress went on to win a landslide. V. S. Krishna Iyer,[9] a Gandhian, Congressman who later joined Congress (O) and then Janata. He was an ex Mayor of Bangalore and was responsible for sanctioning the Cauvery water supply scheme for Bangalore city. He was instrumental in founding of Yuvakasangha along with Gandhian V Annaiah in 1946 in Bangalore which popularized free tuition classes for 10th standard students apart from B.Com students.[10]

1989 elections saw the Congress winning the seat for the first time with former Karnataka Chief Minister R. Gundu Rao[11] winning the elections defeating V. S. Krishna Iyer. This is the only time that Congress has won the elections in this constituency.

1991 elections were necessitated when the Chandra Shekhar led government fell and elections were called. BJP fielded noted economist K Venkatagiri Gowda.[12] He defeated the incumbent MP R. Gundu Rao and thus BJP won the elections for the 1st time in Bangalore South. BJP won 4 seats in this elections from Karnataka.

In 1996, BJP fielded an young candidate Ananth Kumar[13] who won the elections against Varalakshmi Gundu Rao, wife of R Gundu Rao.[3] He went on to win 5 consecutive elections. Interestingly all his nearest opponents were different candidates but they were all from Congress. Till the rise of Ananth Kumar the seat was won by legal luminaries, freedom fighters, Chief Minister and senior Economists. Ananth Kumar went on to become one of the most powerful and influential politicians from Karnataka, serving both the Vajpayee government and the Modi government in multiple capacities.

Ananth Kumar succumbed to cancer in 2018 during the course of the 16th Lok Sabha,[3] and in 2019, BJP was forced to field a new face due to his untimely death. Tejasvi Surya[14] went on to win with over 3.3 lakh votes and at the age of 29 became one of the youngest MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha.

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates
2024
 
 60.10%
2019
 
 62.20%
2014
 
 56.91%
2009
 
 48.20%
2004
 
 48.30%
1999
 
 50.99%
1998
 
 53.83%
1996
 
 35.08%
1991
 
 46.01%
1989
 
 57.34%
1984
 
 47.58%
1980
 
 45.76%
1977
 
 53.04%
1951
 
 51.91%

2024

2024 Indian general election: Bangalore South[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP L. S. Tejasvi Surya 750,830 60.10 Decrease2.10
INC Sowmya Reddy 473,747 37.92 Increase3.59
NOTA None of the Above 7,857 0.63 Decrease0.21
BSP A. Arun Prasad 2,425 0.19
IND 12 Independent Candidates 8,276 0.66
OTH 7 Other Party Candidates 6,207 0.50
Majority 277,083 22.18 Decrease5.69
Turnout 1,250,052 53.38 Decrease0.32
BJP hold Swing

2019

2019 Indian general election: Bangalore South[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP L. S. Tejasvi Surya 739,229 62.20 Increase5.29
INC B. K. Hariprasad 408,037 34.33 Decrease2.06
NOTA None of the Above 9,938 0.84 Increase0.17
IND 14 Independent Candidates 13,570 1.14
OTH 9 Other Party Candidates 17,717 1.49
Majority 331,192 27.87 Increase7.35
Turnout 1,189,657 53.70 Decrease2.05
BJP hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 633,816 56.91 Increase8.71
INC Nandan Nilekani 405,241 36.39 Decrease7.67
JD(S) Ruth Manorama 25,677 2.31 Decrease1.00
AAP Nina Nayak 21,403 1.92
NOTA None of the Above 7,414 0.67
IND Pramod Muthalik 4,247 0.38
BSP R. Khan Abdul 2,747 0.25 Decrease0.26
IND 11 Independent Candidates 9,619 0.86
OTH 6 Other Party Candidates 3,562 0.32
Majority 228,575 20.52 Increase16.38
Turnout 1,114,359 55.75 Increase10.99
BJP hold Swing

2009

2009 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 437,953 48.20 Decrease0.10
INC Krishna Byre Gowda 400,341 44.06 Increase3.54
JD(S) Prof. K. E. Radhakrishna 30,045 3.31 Decrease6.38
IND Capt. G. R. Gopinath 16,383 1.80
BSP S. Naheeda Salma 4,621 0.51
IND 11 Independent Candidates 15,552 1.71
OTH 4 Other Party Candidates 3,695 0.41
Majority 37,612 4.14 Decrease3.64
Turnout 909,065 44.76 Decrease4.65
BJP hold Swing

2004

2004 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 386,682 48.30 Decrease2.69
INC M. M. Krishnappa 324,411 40.52 Decrease2.26
JD(S) Jayanthi 77,551 9.69 Increase6.86
IND S. V. Srinivasa Rao 5,012 0.63
IND G. H. Paksha Rangaswamy 3,304 0.41
IND Dr. B. R. Manjunath 1,934 0.24
IND Bhadrappa 1,755 0.22
Majority 62,271 7.78 Decrease0.43
Turnout 800,649 49.41 Decrease4.72
BJP hold Swing

1999

1999 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 410,161 50.99 Decrease2.84
INC B. K. Hari Prasad 344,107 42.78 Increase11.51
JD(S) B. T. Parthasarathy 22,801 2.83
AIADMK D. Arumugam 11,643 1.45
IND Dr. B. R. Manjunath 11,636 1.45
IND G. H. Paksha Rangaswamy 3,994 0.50
Majority 66,054 8.21 Decrease14.35
Turnout 805,034 54.13 Decrease3.82
BJP hold Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 429,648 53.83 Increase18.75
INC D. P. Sharma 249,601 31.27 Decrease0.74
JD V. Somanna 110,323 13.82 Decrease11.57
SAP B. S. Rajput 2,688 0.34
KVP Abbas Ali Bohra 704 0.09
RJD S. V. Ramanna 592 0.07
IND 5 Independent Candidates 4,579 0.57
Majority 180,047 22.56 Increase19.49
Turnout 810,135 57.95 Increase2.03
BJP hold Swing

1996

1996 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ananth Kumar 251,235 35.08 Decrease10.93
INC Varalakshmi Gundurao 229,267 32.01 Decrease9.44
JD M. Raghupathy 181,826 25.39 Increase14.46
KCVP Vatal Nagaraj 28,989 4.05
IND 26 Independent Candidates 21,216 2.98
OTH 5 Other Party Candidates 3,676 0.51
Majority 21,968 3.07 Decrease1.49
Turnout 727,220 55.92 Increase10.22
BJP hold Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP K. Venkatgiri Gowda 275,083 46.01 Increase37.28
INC R. Gundu Rao 247,835 41.45 Decrease15.89
JD V. S. Krishna Iyer 65,356 10.93 Decrease13.16
IND 22 Independent Candidates 5,537 0.91
OTH 8 Other Party Candidates 4,094 0.69
Majority 27,248 4.56 Decrease28.69
Turnout 607,128 45.70 Decrease11.00
BJP gain from INC Swing

1989

1989 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC R. Gundu Rao 413,574 57.34 Increase12.05
JD M. Raghupathy 173,720 24.09
BJP Ramachandra Gowda 62,936 8.73
JP M. S. Narayana Rao 45,242 6.27 Decrease41.31
IND Jayakumar 8,488 1.18
IND 17 Independent Candidates 14,821 2.06
OTH 2 Other Party Candidates 2,460 0.34
Majority 239,854 33.25 Increase30.96
Turnout 744,332 56.70 Decrease0.42
INC gain from JP Swing

1984

1984 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP V. S. Krishna Iyer 264,765 47.58 Increase1.82
INC K. Venkatagiri Gowda 252,033 45.29 Increase0.16
LKD A. K. Subbaiah 13,441 2.42
IND 28 Independent Candidates 26,188 4.66
Majority 12,732 2.29 Increase1.66
Turnout 563,908 57.12 Increase5.90
JP hold Swing

1980

1980 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP T. R. Shamanna 198,390 45.76 Decrease7.28
INC(I) D. P. Sharma 195,663 45.13 Increase1.92
CPI M. S. Krishnan 26,999 6.23 Increase4.80
SUCI B. A. Rajarao Shinde 742 0.17
IND 16 Independent Candidates 11,742 2.70
Majority 2,727 0.63 Decrease9.20
Turnout 441,603 51.22 Decrease13.00
JP hold Swing

1977

1977 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP K. S. Hegde 221,974 53.04
INC K. Hanumanthaiah 180,809 43.21
IND G. Rangaswamy 6,586 1.57
CPI M. C. Narasimhan 5,991 1.43
IND Mahendra Desai 1,292 0.31
IND C. Mahadevaswamy 1,086 0.26
IND M. V. Krishna Murthy 752 0.18
Majority 41,165 9.83
Turnout 426,595 64.22
JP gain from INC Swing

1951

1951–52 Indian general election: Bangalore South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC T. Madiah Gowda 80,951 51.91
KMPP K. Srinivasa Rao 36,766 23.58
ABJS B. N. Vijayadeva 19,547 12.53
IND L. Srinivasa Reddy 18,684 11.98
Majority 44,185 28.33
Turnout 155,948 45.09
INC win (new seat)

See also

References

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