Bellary Rural Assembly constituency

Bellary
Bellary
Constituency No. 93 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bellary
LS constituency	Bellary
Established	2008
Total electors	238,361
Reservation	ST
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent B Nagendra
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	N. Y. Gopalakrishna

Bellary Rural Assembly seat (or just Bellary) is one of the 224 seats in the Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Bellary Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency has been reserved for Scheduled Tribes since the 2008 delimitation. It is a stronghold of B. Sriramulu. It consists of 11 wards of Bellary City. The areas Cowl Bazar, TB Sanatorium, and Contonment belong to this constituency. It has both urban and rural voters.

Geographical scope

The constituency comprises ward nos. 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 of Ballari Municipal Corporation lying in Ballari taluka. Urban voters in Bellary (ST) assembly were 85,124 which was 38% in the 2011 census; rural voters were 138,887 which was around 62%.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
Before 2008	See: Bellary
2008	B. Sriramulu	Bharatiya Janata Party
2011^		Independent
2013		Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress
2014^	N. Y. Gopalakrishna	Indian National Congress
2018^[2]	B. Nagendra
2023^[1]	B. Nagendra

^by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Bellary^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	B. Nagendra	103,836	56.84	+8.30
	BJP	B. Sriramulu	74,536	40.80	−6.10
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,142	0.63	−0.41
Majority			29,300	16.04	+14.40
Turnout			182,692	76.65	+2.26
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Bellary^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	B. Nagendra	79,186	48.54
	BJP	Sanna Pakkirappa	76,507	46.9
	JD(S)	D. Ramesh	3,212	1.97
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,695	1.04
Majority			2,679	1.64
Turnout			163,128	74.39
	INC hold		Swing

1967

Source:^[4]

Sanna Pakirappa (BJS): 76,507 votes

V. Nagappa (Swatantra): 27,052 votes

T. G. Sathyanarayan (INC): 11,963 votes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India.
^ Financialexpress (16 May 2018). "Karnataka election results 2018: Full list of constituency wise winners and losers from BJP, Congress, JD(S) in Karnataka assembly elections". Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
^ "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
^ "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1967". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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[election2023-1] "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India.

[Karnataka_election_results_2018:_Full_list_of_constituency_wise_winners_and_losers_from_BJP,_Congress,_JD(S)_in_Karnataka_assembly_elections-2] Financialexpress (16 May 2018). "Karnataka election results 2018: Full list of constituency wise winners and losers from BJP, Congress, JD(S) in Karnataka assembly elections". Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

[election2018-3] "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.

[elections-4] "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1967". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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