2019 Indian general election in Karnataka

The 2019 Indian general election were held in Karnataka on Two phases- 18 and 23 April 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.^[1][2]

Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka

2019 Indian general election in Karnataka

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28 seats
Turnout	68.81% ( 1.61%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader B. S. Yediyurappa Mallikarjun Kharge H. D. Deve Gowda Party BJP INC JD(S) Alliance NDA UPA UPA Leader's seat did not contest Gulbarga (lost) Tumkur (lost) Last election 17 9 2 Seats won 25 1 1 Seat change 8 8 1 Percentage 51.38% 31.88% 9.67% Swing 8.38% 8.12% 1.33%
Karnataka
Prime Minister before election Narendra Modi BJP Prime Minister after election Narendra Modi BJP

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

Karnataka NDA seat sharing map

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			B. S. Yediyurappa	27
	Independent			Sumalatha Ambareesh	1

  United Progressive Alliance

Karnataka INC + JD(S) seat sharing map

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Mallikarjun Kharge	21
	Janata Dal (Secular)			H. D. Kumaraswamy	7

Voter's Turnout

First phase election on 18 April with highest voting recorded in Mandya of 80.24% and the lowest is recorded in Bangalore South of 53.48% as per the official announcement from Election CEO of Karnataka.

Poll Date	State	No. of. Seats	Turnout (%)[3]
18 Apr 2019	Karnataka - Phase 1	14	68.96
23 Apr 2019	Karnataka - Phase 2	14	68.66

Candidates

Constituency
		NDA			UPA
1	Chikkodi		BJP	Annasaheb Jolle		INC	Prakash Babanna Hukkeri
2	Belgaum		BJP	Suresh Angadi		INC	Virupakshi S Sadhunavar
3	Bagalkot		BJP	P. C. Gaddigoudar		INC	Veena Kashappanavar
4	Bijapur (SC)		BJP	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi		JD(S)	Sunitha Devanand Chavan
5	Gulbarga (SC)		BJP	Umesh. G. Jadhav		INC	Mallikarjun Kharge
6	Raichur (ST)		BJP	Raja Amresh Nayak		INC	B. V. Nayak
7	Bidar		BJP	Bhagwanth Khuba		INC	Eshwara Khandre
8	Koppal		BJP	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		INC	Rajashekar Hitnal
9	Bellary (ST)		BJP	Devendrappa		INC	V. S. Ugrappa
10	Haveri		BJP	Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi		INC	D. R. Patil
11	Dharwad		BJP	Pralhad Joshi		INC	Vinay Kulkarni
12	Uttara Kannada		BJP	Anant Kumar Hegde		JD(S)	Anand Asnotikar
13	Davanagere		BJP	G. M. Siddeshwara		INC	H. B. Manjappa
14	Shimoga		BJP	B. Y. Raghavendra		JD(S)	Madhu Bangarappa
15	Udupi Chikmagalur		BJP	Shobha Karandlaje		JD(S)	Pramod Madhwaraj
16	Hassan		BJP	A. Manju		JD(S)	Prajwal Revanna
17	Dakshina Kannada		BJP	Nalin Kumar Kateel		INC	Mithun Rai
18	Chitradurga (SC)		BJP	A. Narayana Swamy		INC	B. N. Chandrappa
19	Tumkur		BJP	G. S. Basavaraj		JD(S)	H. D. Deve Gowda
20	Mandya		IND	Sumalatha		JD(S)	Nikhil Gowda
21	Mysore		BJP	Pratap Simha		INC	C. H. Vijayashankar
22	Chamarajanagar (SC)		BJP	Srinivasa Prasad		INC	R. Dhruvanarayana
23	Bangalore Rural		BJP	Ashwath Narayana Gowda		INC	D. K. Suresh
24	Bangalore North		BJP	D. V. Sadananda Gowda		INC	Krishna Byre Gowda
25	Bangalore Central		BJP	P. C. Mohan		INC	Rizwan Arshad
26	Bangalore South		BJP	Tejasvi Surya		INC	B. K. Hariprasad
27	Chikballapur		BJP	B. N. Bache Gowda		INC	Veerappa Moily
28	Kolar (SC)		BJP	S. Muniswamy		INC	K. H. Muniyappa

Opinion Polls

Date published	Polling agency			Lead
		NDA	INC + JD(S)
Jan 2019	Spick Media	13	15	2
Jan 2019	CVoter	14	14	–

Date published	Polling agency			Others	Lead
		NDA	INC + JD(S)
Jan 2019	CVoter	44%	47.9%	8.1%	3.9%

Results

BJP won 25 seats. INC won 1 seat and JD(S) won 1 seat .Independent (Supported by BJP) Won 1 Seat.

25	1	1	1
BJP	INC	JD(S)	IND

Coalition wise - Party result

Parties	Alliance		Parties Contested seats	Alliance contested seats	Seats won
Bharatiya Janata Party[4]	National Democratic Alliance		27	28	25
Sumalatha (Independent)[5]			1		1
Indian National Congress[6][7]	INC + JD(S)		21	28	1
Janata Dal (Secular)[7]			7		1

Party wise

Party		Seats		Votes[8]
		Contested	Won	#	%
	Bharatiya Janata Party	27	25	1,80,53,454	51.75
	Indian National Congress	21	1	1,12,03,016	32.11
	Janata Dal (Secular)	7	1	33,97,229	9.74
	Bahujan Samaj Party	28	-	4,12,382	1.18
	Independents	1	1	13,69,087	3.92
	NOTA	28	-	2,50,810	0.72
Total			28	3,48,87,872	100.0

Constituency-wise results

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Chikkodi	Annasaheb Shankar Jolle		BJP	645,017	52.89	Prakash Hukkeri		INC	526,140	43.14	118,877	9.75
2	Belgaum	Angadi Suresh Channabasappa		BJP	761,991	63.12	Dr. Sadhunavar		INC	370,687	30.71	391,304	32.41
3	Bagalkot	Gaddigoudar Parvatagouda Chandanagouda		BJP	664,638	55.17	Veena Kashappanavar		INC	496,451	41.21	168,187	13.96
4	Bijapur	Jigajinagi Ramesh Chandappa		BJP	635,867	57.16	Dr. Sunita Devanand Chavan		JD(S)	377,829	33.96	258,038	23.20
5	Gulbarga	Dr. Umesh G. Jadhav		BJP	620,192	52.10	Mallikarjun Kharge		INC	524,740	44.08	95,452	8.02
6	Raichur	Raja Amareshwara Naik		BJP	598,337	53.19	B. V. Naik		INC	480,621	42.72	117,716	10.47
7	Bidar	Bhagwanth Khuba		BJP	585,471	52.36	Eshwara Khandre		INC	468,637	41.91	116,834	10.45
8	Koppal	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		BJP	586,783	49.28	Rajashekar Basavaraj Hitnal		INC	548,386	46.06	38,397	3.22
9	Bellary	Y. Devendrappa		BJP	616,388	50.44	V. S. Ugrappa		INC	560,681	45.88	55,707	4.56
10	Haveri	Udasi S. C.		BJP	683,660	53.92	D. R. Patil		INC	542,778	42.81	140,882	11.11
11	Dharwad	Pralhad Joshi		BJP	684,837	56.41	Vinay Kulkarni		INC	479,765	39.51	205,072	16.90
12	Uttara Kannada	Anantkumar Hegde		BJP	786,042	68.09	Anand Asnotikar		JD(S)	306,393	26.54	479,649	41.55
13	Davanagere	G. M. Siddeshwar		BJP	652,996	54.63	H. B. Manjappa		INC	483,294	40.44	169,702	14.19
14	Shimoga	B. Y. Raghavendra		BJP	729,872	56.84	Madhu Bangarappa		JD(S)	506,512	39.45	223,360	17.39
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	Shobha Karandlaje		BJP	718,916	62.43	Pramod Madhwaraj		JD(S)	369,317	32.07	349,599	30.36
16	Hassan	Prajwal Revanna		JD(S)	676,606	52.92	Manju A.		BJP	535,282	41.86	141,324	11.06
17	Dakshina Kannada	Nalin Kumar Kateel		BJP	774,285	57.55	Mithun M. Rai		INC	499,664	37.14	274,621	20.41
18	Chitradurga	A. Narayanaswamy		BJP	626,195	50.24	B. N. Chandrappa		INC	546,017	43.80	80,178	6.44
19	Tumkur	G. S. Basavaraj		BJP	596,127	47.86	H. D. Devegowda		JD(S)	582,788	46.79	13,339	1.07
20	Mandya	Sumalatha Ambareesh		IND	703,660	51.00	Nikhil Kumaraswamy		JD(S)	577,784	41.88	125,876	9.12
21	Mysore	Prathap Simha		BJP	688,974	52.27	C. H. Vijayashankar		INC	550,327	41.75	138,647	10.52
22	Chamarajanagar	V. Srinivas Prasad		BJP	568,537	44.74	R. Dhruvanarayana		INC	566,720	44.60	1,817	0.14
23	Bangalore Rural	D. K. Suresh		INC	878,258	54.12	Ashwath Narayan Gowda		BJP	671,388	41.37	206,870	12.75
24	Bangalore North	D. V. Sadananda Gowda		BJP	824,500	52.84	Krishna Byregowda		INC	676,982	43.39	147,518	9.45
25	Bangalore Central	P. C. Mohan		BJP	602,853	50.33	Rizwan Arshad		INC	531,885	44.41	70,968	5.92
26	Bangalore South	Tejasvi Surya		BJP	739,229	62.14	B. K. Hariprasad		INC	408,037	34.30	331,192	27.84
27	Chikkballapur	B. N. Bache Gowda		BJP	745,912	53.74	M. Veerappa Moily		INC	563,802	40.62	182,110	13.12
28	Kolar	S. Muniswamy		BJP	709,165	56.32	K. H. Muniyappa		INC	499,144	39.64	210,021	16.68

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly
	Bharatiya Janata Party	170	104
	Indian National Congress	36	80
	Janata Dal (Secular)	11	37
	Others	7	3
Total		224