Chikmagalur Assembly constituency

Chikmagalur Assembly constituency is one of the 224 seats in Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency.

Chikmagalur
Constituency No. 125 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Chikkamagaluru
Lok Sabha constituency	Udupi Chikmagalur
Established	1961
Total electors	230,738[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent H. D. Thammaiah
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	C. T. Ravi

Members of Legislative Assembly

Source^[2]

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
Before 1961: Constituency did not exist
1962	B. L. Subbamma		Indian National Congress
1967	C. M. S. Shastri		Praja Socialist Party
1972	E. E. Vaz		Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978	C. A. Chandre Gowda		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983	H. A. Narayana Gowda		Janata Party
1985	B. Shanakara		Independent politician
1989	Sageer Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1994
1999
2004	C. T. Ravi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008
2013
2018
2023	H. D. Thammaiah		Indian National Congress

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chikmagalur^[1][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	H. D. Thammaiah	85,054	50.01	+22.36
	BJP	C. T. Ravi	79,128	46.53	+2.55
	JD(S)	B. M. Thimma Shetty	1,763	1.04	−22.74
	NOTA	None of the Above	849	0.5	−0.26
Majority			5,926	3.48	−12.85
Turnout			170,072	73.71	−0.81
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chikmagalur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	C. T. Ravi	70,863	43.98
	INC	B. L. Shankar	44,549	27.65
	JD(S)	B. H. Harisha	38,317	23.78
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,224	0.76
Majority			26,314	16.33
Turnout			1,61,138	74.52
	BJP hold		Swing

1962

• B. L. Subbamma (INC): 9,717 votes^[5]
• C. M. S. Shastry (PSP): 6,378 votes

See also

• Chikkamagaluru district
• List of constituencies of Karnataka Legislative Assembly