Channapatna Assembly constituency

Channapatna Assembly constituency of Karnataka Assembly is one of the constituencies located in Ramanagara district.^[2][3]

Channapatna
Constituency No. 185 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Ramanagara
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangalore Rural
Established	1951
Total electors	230,381 (2023)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. P. Yogeshwara
Party	Indian National Congress
Preceded by	H. D. Kumaraswamy

It is a part of Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency, along with eight other assembly constituencies. Channapatna constituency is well known for many important people in Karnataka politics. The first education minister of Mysore State, V. Venkatappa, was from this constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1952	V. Venkatappa		Indian National Congress
1957[4][5]	B. K. Puttaramaiah		Praja Socialist Party
1962[6][7][8]	B. J. Linge Gowda		Indian National Congress
1967[9][10]	T. V. Krishnappa		Independent politician
1972[11][12]			Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978[13][14][15]	D. T. Ramu		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983[16][17]	M. Varade Gowda (Raju)		Janata Party
1985[18][19]
1989[20][21][22]	Sadat Ali Khan		Indian National Congress
1994[23][24][25]	M.Varade Gowda		Janata Dal
1999[26][27]	C. P. Yogeshwara		Independent politician
2004[28][29]			Indian National Congress
2008
2009^[30]	M. C. Ashwath		Janata Dal (Secular)
2011^[31]	C. P. Yogeshwara		Bhartiya Janata Party
2013			Samajwadi Party
2018[32][33]	H. D. Kumaraswamy[34][35][36]		Janata Dal (Secular)
2023
2024^	C. P. Yogeshwara		Indian National Congress

^by-election

Election results

2024

2024 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-election: Channapatna^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. P. Yogeshwara	112,642	54.33	+46.56
	JD(S)	Nikhil Kumaraswamy	87,229	42.07	−6.76
	NOTA	None of the Above	427	0.21	−0.35
Majority			25,413	12.26	+4.22
Turnout			207,347
	INC gain from JD(S)		Swing

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Channapatna^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	H. D. Kumaraswamy	96,592	48.83	+2.28
	BJP	C. P. Yogeshwara	80,677	40.79	+5.63
	INC	S. Gangadhar	15,374	7.77	−8.21
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,110	0.56	−0.02
Majority			15,915	8.04	−3.35
Turnout			1,97,796	85.86	−1.00
	JD(S) hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Channapatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	H. D. Kumaraswamy	87,995	46.55
	BJP	C. P. Yogeshwara	66,465	35.16
	INC	H. M. Revanna	30,208	15.98
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,103	0.58
Majority			21,530	11.39
Turnout			1,89,013	86.86
	JD(S) gain from SP		Swing

2013

2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Channapatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	C. P. Yogeshwara	80,099	47.53
	JD(S)	Anitha Kumaraswamy	73,635	43.70
	INC	Sadath Ali Khan	8,134	4.83
	BJP	Ravikumar Gowda	1,609	0.95
Majority			6,464
Turnout
	SP gain from INC		Swing