Basavanagudi Assembly constituency

Basavanagudi Assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, a southern state of India. Basavanagudi is also part of Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency.^[2] It has also been considered as a stronghold of the BJP as it has won the constituency by a large margin multiple times.^[3] Congress has only won the seat once in 2004 in the span of the past 45 years. The constituency is dominated by Brahmins and Vokkaligas. Middle and upper middle class people are in significant numbers and senior citizens make up almost a third of the electorate.^[4]

Basavanagudi
Constituency No. 170 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bangalore Urban
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangalore South
Established	1957
Total electors	233,600 (2023)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent L. A. Ravi Subramanya
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	K. Chandrashekhar

Members of Legislative Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1952	P. R. Ramaiya		Indian National Congress
1957	L. S. Venkaji Rao
1962	M. Krishnappa
1967	P. Thimmaiah		Independent
1972	Amir Rahamathulla Khan		Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978	T. R. Shamanna		Janata Party
1980^	H. L. Thimme Gowda
1983
1985	Ramakrishna Hegde
1989			Janata Dal
1994	H. N. Nanje Gowda		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	K. N. Subbareddy
2004	K. Chandrashekhar		Indian National Congress
2008	L. A. Ravi Subramanya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013
2018[5]
2023[6][7]

^by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Basavanagudi^[1][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. A. Ravi Subramanya	78,854	61.47	+3.01
	INC	U. B. Venkatesh	23,876	18.61	+9.56
	JD(S)	Aramane Shankar	19,931	15.54	−14.29
	UPP	J. Rajini	2,192	1.71
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,656	1.29	−0.14
Majority			54,978	42.86	+13.63
Turnout			1,28,286	54.92	+1.91
	BJP hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Basavanagudi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. A. Ravi Subramanya	76,018	58.46
	JD(S)	K. Bagegowda	38,009	29.83
	INC	M. Boregowda	11,767	9.05
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,856	1.43
Majority			38,009	29.23
Turnout			1,30,043	53.01
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Basavanagudi
• Bangalore Urban district
• List of constituencies of Karnataka Legislative Assembly