Chikballapur Lok Sabha constituency

Chikkballapur Lok Sabha constituency, also spelled 'Chikkaballapur', is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1977 after the reorganisation of Indian states. It covers parts of Chikkaballapura District and Bengaluru Rural District.

Chikkballapur
Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha Constituency Map
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
Assembly constituencies	Gauribidanur Bagepalli Chikkaballapur Yelahanka Hoskote Devanahalli Doddaballapur Nelamangala
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent K. Sudhakar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Vidhan Sabha segments

Chikballapur Lok Sabha constituency presently comprises the following eight Legislative Assembly segments:^[1]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		Party Leading (in 2024)
139	Gauribidanur	Chikballapur	K. H. Puttaswamy Gowda		IND		BJP
140	Bagepalli		S. N. Subbareddy		INC		INC
141	Chikkaballapur		Pradeep Eshwar		INC		BJP
150	Yelahanka	Bangalore Urban	S. R. Vishwanath		BJP		BJP
178	Hoskote	Bangalore Rural	Sharath Kumar Bachegowda		INC		INC
179	Devanahalli (SC)		K. H. Muniyappa		INC		BJP
180	Doddaballapur		Dheeraj Muniraj		BJP		BJP
181	Nelamangala (SC)	Bangalore Rural	N. Shreenivasaiah		INC		BJP

Members of Parliament

Mysore State

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952-62 : See Kolar
1962	K. Chengalaraya Reddy		Indian National Congress
1967-77 : See Hoskote
1977	M. V. Krishnappa		Indian National Congress
1980	S. N. Prasan Kumar		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	V. Krishna Rao		Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996	R. L. Jalappa		Janata Dal
1998			Indian National Congress
1999
2004
2009	Veerappa Moily
2014
2019	B. N. Bache Gowda		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	K. Sudhakar

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Chikkballapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	K. Sudhakar	822,619	53.93	0.15
	INC	Raksha Ramaiah	659,159	43.21	2.56
	NOTA	None of the Above	6,596	0.43	0.15
Majority			163,460	10.71	2.42
Turnout			1,531,043	77.26	0.52
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Chikkballapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	B. N. Bache Gowda	745,912	53.78	20.92
	INC	M. Veerappa Moily	5,63,802	40.65	7.04
	CPI(M)	S. Varalakshmi	28,648	1.34	0.72
	BSP	Dr. C. S. Dwarakanath	23,446	1.69
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,025	0.58	0.03
Majority			1,82,110	13.13	12.38
Turnout			13,87,987	76.74	0.56
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Chikkballapur^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Veerappa Moily[5]	424,800	33.61	6.29
	BJP	B. N. Bache Gowda	4,15,280	32.86	1.79
	JD(S)	H. D. Kumaraswamy	3,46,339	27.40	8.39
	CPI(M)	G. V. Sreerama Reddy	26,071	2.06
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,682	0.61
Majority			9,520	0.75	4.5
Turnout			12,63,274	76.18	8.09
	INC hold		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Chikkballapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Veerappa Moily	390,500	39.90
	BJP	C. Aswathanarayana	3,39,119	34.65
	JD(S)	C. R. Manohar	1,86,075	19.01
	BSP	Hennuru Lakshmi Narayana	14,629	1.49
Majority			51,381	5.25
Turnout			9,78,610	68.09
	INC hold		Swing

1977 Lok Sabha

• M. V. Krishnappa (INC) : 207,589 votes ^[6]
• G. Narayana Gowda (Janata) : 159,115

See also

• Hoskote Lok Sabha constituency
• Chikballapur district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha