Chittapur Assembly constituency

Chittapur
Chittapur
Constituency No. 40 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Kalaburagi
Lok Sabha constituency	Gulbarga
Established	1951
Total electors	235,755
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Priyank M. Kharge
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Valmiki Nayak

Chittapur is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, a southern state of India. Chittapur is also part of Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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Year	Name
1978	Prabhakar R. Telkar	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983	Vishwanath Patil Hebbal	Janata Party
1985	Vishwanath Patil Hebbal	Janata Party
1989	Babu Rao Chinchansur	Indian National Congress
1994
1999
2004	Vishwanath Patil Hebbal	Janata Dal
2008	Mallikarjun Kharge	Indian National Congress
2009^[a]	Valmiki Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Priyank M. Kharge	Indian National Congress
2018
2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Priyank Kharge	81,323	53.08	3.43
	BJP	Manikanta Rathod	67,683	44.18	2.35
	NOTA	None of the above	816	0.53	0.22
Majority			13,640	8.90	5.78
Turnout			1,53,195	64.98	4.46
	INC hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Priyank Kharge	69,700	49.65
	BJP	Valmiki Naik	65,307	46.53
	BSP	Devaraja V K	1,218	0.87
	NOTA	None of the above	1,052	0.75
Majority			4,393	3.12
Turnout			1,40,369	60.52
	INC hold		Swing

Members of the Legislative Assembly

2009 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-election: Chittapur^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Valmiki Naik	48,365	47.72
	INC	Priyank Kharge	46,759	45.26
	JD(S)	Basavaraj Bennur	4,904	3.92
	BSP	Ayyappa Ramatheertha	1,356	0.92
Majority			1,606
Turnout
	BJP gain from INC		Swing