2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election


The 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 5 May 2013 to elect members from 223 constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka. Five major political parties contested the election: Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Janata Dal , B. S. Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Paksha and B. Sriramulu's Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress Party. Though Karnataka has 224 assembly constituencies, elections were held only for 223 seats. The election for the Piriyapatna constituency was postponed to 28 May 2013 due to the death of the BJP candidate for the seat. The voter turnout in the state was 70.23%.
The INC under the leadership of the erstwhile Janata Parivar leader Siddaramaiah won the election with an absolute majority of 122 seats, 9 more than the majority mark of 113. As a result, the INC returned to power on its own after nine years with Siddaramaiah becoming the Chief Minister.

Background

In 2008, the BJP under the leadership of B. S. Yeddyurappa, a powerful Lingayat leader, won 110 seats, emerging as the single largest party. As the party did not have a majority of its own, having not won 113+ seats, it had to form a government with the support of a few independent MLA's. The BJP thus came to power for the first time ever in South India with Yeddyurappa becoming the Chief Minister of Karnataka.
However, the five years in which BJP was in power in Karnataka was not smooth and was mired in many controversies. A few months after coming to power, the BJP launched Operation Kamala which encouraged Congress and JD MLA's to defect to the BJP to boost its strength in the assembly. Yeddyurappa had to face many revolts over his style of functioning from the Reddy brothers and B. Sriramulu, a faction led by Balachandra Jarkiholi and the old BJP loyalists led by Ananth Kumar. Janardhana Reddy was arrested in the Bellary illegal mining scam in 2011. Some BJP leaders like Katta Subramanya Naidu, Ess Enn Krishnaiah Setty and Yeddyurappa were imprisoned for some time for their role in individual land scams. Yeddyurappa and Kumaraswamy of JD were accused of encouraging illegal mining, though were cleared later by the High Court of Karnataka.
In its five years of rule, the BJP had three Chief Ministers. Yeddyurappa was forced to resign as Chief Minister in July 2011 due to his alleged involvement in a land scam. He was replaced by his handpicked successor and loyalist D. V. Sadananda Gowda, who faced a challenge from Jagadish Shettar, the Chief Minister choice for Yeddyurappa's opponents in the BJP. However, Gowda soon fell out with Yeddyurappa and the latter began to revolt against him, threatening to quit the BJP if Gowda was not removed. The BJP High Command replaced Gowda with Shettar, only 11 months after he became Chief Minister. Shettar was another Lingayat BJP leader whom Yeddyurappa opposed becoming his successor just less than a year ago as they were from the same caste.
In local body elections, the Congress and the JD won more seats while the BJP was pushed to third. In the by-election to the Udupi Chimagalur Lok Sabha seat held in March 2012, the Congress won.
Yeddyurappa quit the BJP in November 2012 and formed his own party, the Karnataka Janata Paksha. Previously, Sriramulu had quit the BJP in 2011 to form the Badagara Shramika Raitala Congress after Janardhana Reddy was imprisoned. These splits weakened the BJP.

Election

The election was held in a single phase on 5 May 2013 for 223 out of total 224 seats. A voter turnout of 70.23% was recorded. 50,446 polling stations were set up for the 41.8 million voters in Karnataka. The election in the constituency of Periyapatna was adjourned due to the death of the BJP candidate, Sannamogegowda, a day before polls.

Result

Votes were counted on 8 May. Following the defeat, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar submitted his resignation on 8 May. Governor H. R. Bharadwaj later appointed INC legislative leader Siddaramaiah as the next chief minister. The next election was held in May 2018.

List of winning candidates

The election results for each constituency are as follows.
#ConstituencyWinning candidatePolitical partyVotes securedMargin
1NippaniShashikala Annasaheb JolleBharatiya Janata Party81,86018,662
2Chikkodi-SadalgaPrakash Babanna HukkeriIndian National Congress1,02,23776,588
3AthaniLaxman SavadiBharatiya Janata Party74,29924,879
4KagwadBharamgoud Alagoud KageBharatiya Janata Party41,7842,887
5KudachiP. RajeevBSR Congress71,05746,234
6RaybagDuryodhan Mahalingappa AiholeBharatiya Janata Party37,535829
7HukkeriUmesh KattiBharatiya Janata Party81,81057,326
8ArabhaviBalachandra Laxmanrao JarkiholiBharatiya Janata Party99,28375, 221
9GokakRamesh JarkiholiIndian National Congress79, 17528,005
10YemakanmardiSatish JarkiholiIndian National Congress70,72624,350
11Belgaum North/UttaraFairoz Nuruddin SaithIndian National Congress45,12518,210
12Belgaum South/DakshinaSambhaji Lakshman PatilMaharashtra Ekikaran Samiti54,4266,310
13Belgaum RuralSanjay B PatilBharatiya Janata Party38,3221,335
14KhanapurArvind Chandrakant PatilMaharashtra Ekikaran Samiti37,05516,152
15KitturInamadar Danappagouda BasanagoudaIndian National Congress53,92418,290
16BailhongalVishwanath I. PatilKarnataka Janata Paksha40,7093,621
17Saundatti YellammaAnand alias Vishwanath C MamaniBharatiya Janata Party4643416,042
18RamdurgA. M. PattanIndian National Congress42,3104,984
19MudholGovind KarjolBharatiya Janata Party64.7275,178
20TerdalUmashreeIndian National Congress70,1892,599
21JamkhandhiSiddu B NyamagoudaIndian National Congress49,14521,152
22BilagiJ. T. PatilIndian National Congress66,65511,238
23BadamiChimmanakatti Balappa BhimappaIndian National Congress57,44615,113
24BagalkotMeti Hullappa YamanappaIndian National Congress68,2162,900
25HungundV. S. KashappanavarIndian National Congress72,72015,797
26MuddebihalAppaji Urf C. S. NadagoudIndian National Congress34,74712,202
27Devara HipparagiAminappagouda PatilIndian National Congress36,2318,096
28Basavana BagewadiShivanand PatilIndian National Congress56,32919,676
29BabaleshwarM. B. PatilIndian National Congress62,0614,355
30Bijapur CityMakbul S. BagawanIndian National Congress48,6159,380
31NagthanRaju AlagurIndian National Congress45,570667
32IndiYashavantarayagouda PatilIndian National Congress58,56233,302
33SindgiBhusanur Ramesh BalappaBharatiya Janata Party37,8341,188
34AfzalpurMalikayya Venkayya GuttedarIndian National Congress38,0935,238
35JevargiAjay SinghIndian National Congress67,03836,700
36ShorapurRaja Venkatappa NayakIndian National Congress65,0334,075
37ShahpurGuru Patil ShiravalKarnataka Janata Paksha5,796
38YadgirDr. MaalakareddyIndian National Congress9,104
39GurmitkalBaburao ChinchanasoorIndian National Congress1,650
40ChittapurPriyank KhargeIndian National Congress31,191
41SedamDr. Sharanprakash PatilIndian National Congress11,895
42ChincholiDr Umesh G. JadavIndian National Congress26,060
43Gulbarga RuralG. RamkrishnaIndian National Congress7,218
44Gulbarga SouthDattatraya C. Patil Revoor Bharatiya Janata Party9,970
45Gulbarga NorthQamar ul IslamIndian National Congress20,121
46AlandBhojaraj RamchandraKarnataka Janata Paksha17,114
47BasavakalyanMallikarjun Sidramappa KhubaJanata Dal 15,893
48HumnabadRajashekhar Basavaraj PatilIndian National Congress24,500
49Bidar SouthAshok KhenyKarnataka Makkala Paksha47,76315,788
50BidarGurupadappa NagamarpalliKarnataka Janata Paksha2,571
51BhalkiEshwara KhandreIndian National Congress9,669
52AuradPrabhu.B. ChavanBharatiya Janata Party23,191
53Raichur RuralThipparajuBharatiya Janata Party3,270
54RaichurDr S. Shivaraj PatilJanata Dal 7,871
55ManviG. Hampayya Sahukar BallatagiIndian National Congress6,987
56DevadurgaA. Venkatesh NaikIndian National Congress3,700
57LingasugurManappa D. VajjalJanata Dal 1,286
58SindhanurBadarli HampanagoudaIndian National Congress13,016
59MaskiPratapgowda PatilIndian National Congress19,147
60KushtagiDoddanagouda Hanamagouda PatilBharatiya Janata Party3,037
61KanakagiriShivaraj Sangappa TangadagiIndian National Congress5,052
62GangavathiIqbal AnsariJanata Dal 29,789
63YelburgaBasavaraj RayareddyIndian National Congress16,900
64KoppalK. Raghavendra HitnalIndian National Congress26,788
65ShirahattiDoddamani R. ShidlingappaIndian National Congress315
66GadagH. K. PatilIndian National Congress33,727
67RonG. S. PatilIndian National Congress18,227
68NargundB. R. YavagalIndian National Congress8,585
69NavalgundN. H. KonaraddiJanata Dal 2,669
70KundgolChannabasappa Satyappa ShivalliIndian National Congress21,072
71DharwadVinay KulkarniIndian National Congress53,45317,975
72Hubli-Dharwad Abbayya PrasadIndian National Congress13,154
73Hubli-Dharwad Jagadish ShettarBharatiya Janata Party58,20117,480
74Hubli-Dharwad Arvind BelladBharatiya Janata Party13,154
75KalaghatagiSantosh LadIndian National Congress45,661
76HaliyalR. V. DeshpandeIndian National Congress5,939
77KarwarSanteesh Sail KrishnaIndependent35,880
78KumtaSharada Mohan ShettyIndian National Congress420
79BhatkalMankala Subba VaidyaIndependent27435
80SirsiVishweshwar Hegde KageriBharatiya Janata Party3,059
81YellapurA. H. ShivaramIndian National Congress24,492
82HangalManohar H. TahasildarIndian National Congress66,3245,686
83ShiggoanBasavaraj BommaiBharatiya Janata Party9,503
84HaveriRudrappa Manappa LamaniIndian National Congress30,208
85ByadagiBasavaraj Neelappa ShivannanavarIndian National Congress13,359
86HirekerurU. B. BanakarKarnataka Janata Paksha2,616
87RanebennurK. B. KoliwadIndian National Congress53,7806,788
88HadagaliP. T. ParameshwaranaikIndian National Congress40,810
89HagaribommanahalliL. B. P. BheemanaikJanata Dal 125
90VijayanagaraAnand SinghBharatiya Janata Party30,637
91KampliT. H. Suresh BabuBSR Congress34,396
92SiruguppaB. M. NagarajaIndian National Congress65,490
93BellaryB. SreeramuluBSR Congress33,294
94Bellary CityAnil LadIndian National Congress18,200
95SandurE. TukaramIndian National Congress34,631
96KudligiB. NagendraIndependent24,803
97MolkalmurS. ThippeswamyBSR Congress7,169
98ChallakereT. RaghumurthyIndian National Congress23,123
99ChitradurgaG. H. ThippareddyBharatiya Janata Party26,718
100HiriyurD. SudhakarIndian National Congress1,205
101HosadurgaB G GovindappaIndian National Congress20,017
102HolalkereH. AnjaneyaIndian National Congress12,864
103JagalurH. P. RajeshIndian National Congress36,890
104HarapanahalliM. P. RavindraIndian National Congress8,406
105HariharaH. S. ShivashankarJanata Dal 19,053
106Davanagere NorthS. S. MallikarjunIndian National Congress57,280
107Davangere SouthS. ShivashankarappaIndian National Congress40,158
108MayakondaK. ShivamurthyIndian National Congress694
109ChannagiriVadnal RajannaIndian National Congress1,773
110HonnaliD. G. Shantana GowdaIndian National Congress18,830
111Shimoga RuralSharada PooryanaikJanata Dal 10,109
112BhadravathiAppaji Gowda. M.JJanata Dal 44,099
113ShimogaK. B. Prasanna KumarIndian National Congress278
114ThirthahalliKimmane RatnakarIndian National Congress1,343
115ShikaripuraB. S. YeddyurappaKarnataka Janata Paksha69,12615,000
116SorabaS. Madhu BangarappaJanata Dal 21,225
117SagarKagodu ThimmappaIndian National Congress71,96041,248
118BaindurK. Gopala PoojaryIndian National Congress28,277
119KundapurHalady Srinivas ShettyIndependent40,621
120UdupiPramod MadhwarajIndian National Congress39,524
121KaupVinay Kumar SorakeIndian National Congress1,855
122KarkalaV. Sunil KumarBharatiya Janata Party58,4024,254
123SringeriD. N. JeevarajBharatiya Janata Party3,452
124MudigereB. B. NingaiahJanata Dal 635
125ChikkamagalurC. T. RaviBharatiya Janata Party10,988
126TarikereG. H. SrinivasaIndian National Congress899
127KadurY. S. V DattaJanata Dal 43,000
128ChikkanayakanahalliC B Suresh BabuJanata Dal 11,139
129TipturK. ShadakshariIndian National Congress11,602
130TuruvekereM. T. KrishnappaJanata Dal 8,925
131KunigalD. NagarajaiahJanata Dal 3,037
132Tumkur CityS. Rafeeq AhmedIndian National Congress3,608
133Tumkur RuralB. Suresh GowdaBharatiya Janata Party1,572
134KoratagereP. R. Sudhakara LalJanata Dal 18,155
135GubbiS R Shrinivas Janata Dal 7,244
136SiraT.B.JayachandraIndian National Congress7408914,681
137PavagadaK. M. ThimmarayappaJanata Dal 4,863
138MadhugiriK. N. RajannaIndian National Congress75,08614,427
139GauribidanurN. H. Shivashankara ReddyIndian National Congress49,831
140BagepalliS. N. SubbareddyIndependent30,755
141ChikkaballapurDr K. SudhakarIndian National Congress74,914
142SidlaghattaM. RajannaJanata Dal 15,479
143ChintamaniJ. K. KrishnareddyJanata Dal 1,773
144SrinivasapurK. R. RameshkumarIndian National Congress83,4263,893
145MulbagalG. ManjunathaIndependent33,734
146Kolar Gold FieldY. RamakkaBharatiya Janata Party26,022
147BangarpetS. N. NarayanaswamyIndian National Congress28,567
148KolarR. Varthur PrakashIndependent12,591
149MalurK. S. Manjunath GowdaJanata Dal 57,64518,769
150YelahankaS. R. VishwanathBharatiya Janata Party7550718,300
151KrishnarajapuramB. A. BasavarajaIndian National Congress10629924001
152ByatarayanapuraKrishna Byre GowdaIndian National Congress32,000
153YeshwanthpurS. T. SomashekharIndian National Congress120380
154Rajarajeshwari NagarMunirathnaIndian National Congress18,813
155DasarahalliS. MunirajuBharatiya Janata Party
156Mahalakshmi LayoutK. GopalaiahJanata Dal 66,12715,370
157MalleshwaramDr. C.N. Ashwath NarayanBharatiya Janata Party57,60921,066
158HebbalY A NarayanaswamyBharatiya Janata Party603675,136
159PulakeshinagarR. Akhanda Srinivasa MurthyJanata Dal 10,100
160SarvagnanagarKelachandra Joseph GeorgeIndian National Congress69,67346819
161CV Raman NagarS. RaghuBharatiya Janata Party8,419
162ShivajinagarR. Roshan BaigIndian National Congress49,64920,855
163Shanthi NagarN. A. HarisIndian National Congress54,34219,000
164GandhinagarDinesh GunduraoIndian National Congress22,607
165RajajinagarS. Suresh KumarBharatiya Janata Party39,29114,767
166GovindrajnagarPriya KrishnaIndian National Congress42,460
167VijayanagarM. KrishnappaIndian National Congress76,89132,462
168ChamarajpetB. Z. Zameer Ahmed KhanJanata Dal 30,162
169ChickpetR. V. DevrajIndian National Congress12,000
170BasavanagudiL. A. Ravi SubramanyaBharatiya Janata Party19,720
171PadmanabhanagarR. AshokBharatiya Janata Party20,123
172BTM LayoutRamalingareddyIndian National Congress49,048
173JayanagarBN Vijaya KumarBharatiya Janata Party12,600
174MahadevpuraAravind LimbavaliBharatiya Janata Party1,10,2446,149
175BommanahalliSathish Reddy MBharatiya Janata Party86,55225,852
176Bangalore SouthM KrishnappaBharatiya Janata Party102,20716,825
177AnekalB ShivannaIndian National Congress105,46440,182
178HoskoteM. T. B. NagarajIndian National Congress85,2387,139
179DevanahalliPilla MunishamappaJanata Dal 70,3231,942
180DoddaballapurT. VenkataramanaiahIndian National Congress38,8771,447
181NelamangalaK. SrinivasamurthyJanata Dal 60,49215,103
182MagadiH. C. BalakrishnaJanata Dal 74,82114,359
183RamanagaramH. D. KumaraswamyJanata Dal 25,398
184KanakapuraD. K ShivakumarIndian National Congress31,426
185ChannapatnaC. P. YogeshwaraSamajwadi Party6,464
186MalavalliP. M. NarendraswamyIndian National Congress61,869538
187MaddurD. C. ThamannaJanata Dal 80,92631,958
188MelukoteK. S. PuttannaiahSarvodaya Karnataka Paksha3,848
189MandyaM. H. AmbarishIndian National Congress90,32942,937
190ShrirangapattanaA. B. Ramesha BandisiddegowdaJanata Dal 55,20413,624
191NagamangalaN. ChaluvarayaswamyJanata Dal 89,20320,363
192KrishnarajpetNarayana GowdaJanata Dal 56,7849,243
193ShravanabelagolaC. N. BalakrishnaJanata Dal 87,18524,142
194ArsikereK. M. Shivalinge GowdaJanata Dal 76,57929,361
195BelurY. N. Rudresha GowdaIndian National Congress48,8027,529
196HassanH.S.PrakashJanata Dal 61,3064,196
197HolenarasipurH. D. RevannaJanata Dal 92,71330,058
198ArkalgudA. ManjuIndian National Congress61,3698,794
199SakleshpurH. K. KumaraswamyJanata Dal 63,60233,069
200BelthangadyK. Vasantha BangeraIndian National Congress74,53015,741
201MoodabidariK. AbhayachandraIndian National Congress53,1804,419
202Mangalore City NorthB.A. Mohiuddin BavaIndian National Congress69,8975,373
203Mangalore City SouthJ. R. LoboIndian National Congress67,82912,275
204MangaloreU. T. KhaderIndian National Congress69,45029,111
205BantwalRamanath RaiIndian National Congress81,66517,850
206PutturShakunthala T. ShettyIndian National Congress66,3454,289
207SulliaS. AngaraBharatiya Janata Party65,9131,373
208MadikeriAppachu RanjanBharatiya Janata Party56,6964,629
209VirajpetK. G. BopaiahBharatiya Janata Party67,2503,414
210PiriyaPattanna K VenkateshIndian National Congress59,9572,088
211KrishnarajanagaraSa Ra MaheshJanata Dal 81,45715,052
212HunasuruH. P. ManjunathIndian National Congress83,93040,207
213HeggadadevanakoteS. ChikkamaduJanata Dal 48,60612,498
214NanjangudKalale. N. KeshavamurthyIndian National Congress50,78416000
215ChamundeshwariGT DevegowdaJanata Dal 75,8647,103
216KrishnarajaM. K. SomashekharIndian National Congress52,6116,065
217ChamarajaVasuIndian National Congress41,93012,915
218NarasimharajaTanveer SaitIndian National Congress38,0378,370
219VarunaSiddaramaiahIndian National Congress84,38529,641
220T NarasipuraH. C. MahadevappaIndian National Congress53,219323
221HanurR. NarendraIndian National Congress55,68411,549
222KollegalS. JayannaIndian National Congress47,40210,193
223ChamarajnagarC. PuttarangashettyIndian National Congress54,44011,196
224GundlupetGeetha Mahadevaprasad - 2017Indian National Congress61,8796066

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