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	Contesting Seats
	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	Contesting Seats
	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		BJP	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi		JD(S)	Sunitha Devanand Chavan
5	Gulbarga		BJP	Umesh. G. Jadhav		INC	Mallikarjun Kharge
6	Raichur		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		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		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		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		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

No	Constituency	Turnout[3]	Winner	Party		Margin
1	Chikkodi	75.62	Annasaheb Jolle		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,18,877
2	Belgaum	67.84	Suresh Angadi		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,91,304
3	Bagalkot	70.70	P. C. Gaddigoudar		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,68,187
4	Bijapur	61.89	Ramesh Jigajinagi		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,58,038
5	Gulbarga	61.18	Umesh. G. Jadhav		Bharatiya Janata Party	95,452
6	Raichur	58.34	Raja Amareshwara Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,17,716
7	Bidar	63.00	Bhagwanth Khuba		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,16,834
8	Koppal	68.56	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		Bharatiya Janata Party	38,397
9	Bellary	69.76	Y. Devendrappa		Bharatiya Janata Party	55,707
10	Haveri	74.21	Shivakumar Udasi		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,40,882
11	Dharwad	70.29	Prahlad Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,05,072
12	Uttara Kannada	74.16	Anantkumar Hegde		Bharatiya Janata Party	4,79,649
13	Davanagere	73.19	G. M. Siddeshwara		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,69,702
14	Shimoga	76.58	B. Y. Raghavendra		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,23,360
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	76.07	Shobha Karandlaje		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,49,599
16	Hassan	77.35	Prajwal Revanna		Janata Dal (Secular)	1,41,324
17	Dakshina Kannada	77.99	Nalin Kumar Kateel		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,74,621
18	Chitradurga	70.80	A Narayanaswamy		Bharatiya Janata Party	80,178
19	Tumkur	77.43	G. S. Basavaraj		Bharatiya Janata Party	13,339
20	Mandya	80.59	Sumalatha Ambareesh		Independent	1,25,876
21	Mysore	69.51	Prathap Simha		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,38,647
22	Chamarajanagar	75.35	V. Srinivasa Prasad		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,817
23	Bangalore Rural	64.98	D. K. Suresh		Indian National Congress	2,06,870
24	Bangalore North	54.76	D V Sadananda Gowda		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,47,518
25	Bangalore Central	54.32	P. C. Mohan		Bharatiya Janata Party	70,968
26	Bangalore South	53.70	Tejasvi Surya		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,31,192
27	Chikballapur	76.74	B. N. Bache Gowda		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,82,110
28	Kolar	77.25	S Muniswamy		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,10,021

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