Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency

Gulbarga is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in India.This constituency was created before the first general elections in 1951.^[1]

Gulbarga
Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency Map
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Gulbarga
Assembly constituencies	Afzalpur Jewargi Gurmitkal Chittapur Sedam Gulbarga Rural Gulbarga Dakshin Gulbarga Uttar
Established	1952
Total electors	20,65,018 (2024)
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Radhakrishna
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Constituency Map by Assembly and Taluk borders

Assembly segments

Presently, Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following eight Legislative Assembly segments:

No	Name	District	Member	Party		Party Leading (in 2024)
34	Afzalpur	Kalaburagi	M. Y. Patil		INC		BJP
35	Jewargi		Ajay Singh		INC		BJP
39	Gurmitkal	Yadgir	Nagangouda Kandkur		JD(S)		BJP
40	Chittapur (SC)	Kalaburagi	Priyank Kharge		INC		INC
41	Sedam		Sharan Prakash Patil		INC		INC
43	Gulbarga Rural (SC)		Basawaraj Mattimud		BJP		INC
44	Gulbarga Dakshin		Allamprabhu Patil		INC		BJP
45	Gulbarga Uttar		Kaneez Fathima		INC		INC

Members of Parliament

Year	Name	Party
1952	Swami Ramananda Tirtha		Indian National Congress
1957	Mahadevappa Rampure
1962
1967
1971	Dharamrao Afzalpurkar
1974^	Sidram Reddi
1977
1980	Dharam Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1980^	C. M. Stephen
1984	Veerendra Patil		Indian National Congress
1989	B.G. Jawali
1991
1996	Qamar ul Islam		Janata Dal
1998	Basavaraj Patil Sedam		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi		Indian National Congress
2004
2009	Mallikarjun Kharge
2014
2019	Umesh Jadhav		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Radhakrishna		Indian National Congress

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Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Gulbarga^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Radhakrishna Doddamani	652,321	49.78	+5.66
	BJP	Umesh. G. Jadhav	6,25,116	47.70	−4.44
	NOTA	None of the above	8,429	0.64	−0.26
Majority			27,205	2.08	−5.94
Turnout			13,11,233	62.48
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Gulbarga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Umesh Jadhav	620,192	52.14	+8.81
	INC	Mallikarjun Kharge	524,740	44.12	−8.27
	BSP	K. B. Vasu	10,865	0.91	−0.23
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,487	0.88	−0.11
	SVP	Vijay Jadhav	6,507	0.55
Majority			95,457	8.02
Turnout			11,90,471	61.18	+3.22
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+8.54

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Gulbarga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mallikarjun Kharge	507,193	50.82	+5.36
	BJP	Revu Naik Belamgi	4,32,460	43.33	−0.37
	JD(S)	D. G. Sagar	15,690	1.57	−2.00
	BSP	Mahadev B. Dhanni	11,428	1.14	−0.65
	AAP	B. T. Lalitha Naik	9,074	0.91	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,888	0.99	N/A
Majority			74,733	7.49	+5.73
Turnout			9,98,086	57.96	+8.77
	INC hold		Swing	+5.36

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Gulbarga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mallikarjun Kharge	345,241	45.43
	BJP	Revu Naik Belamgi	3,31,837	43.67
	JD(S)	Babu Honna Naik	27,130	3.57
	IND	Shivakumar Kollur	13,818	1.82
	BSP	Mahadev B. Dhanni	13,575	1.79
Majority			13,404	1.76
Turnout			7,59,693	49.22
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Yadgir Lok Sabha constituency
• Kalaburagi district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha