Kolar Assembly constituency

Kolar Assembly seat is one of the seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Kolar Lok Sabha constituency.

Kolar
Constituency No. 148 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Kolar
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolar
Established	1951
Total electors	240,487[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kothur G. Manjunath
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	K. Srinivasa Gowda

Members of Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1952	K. Pattabhiraman		Independent politician
1957[2][3]	D. Abdul Rasheed		Indian National Congress
1962[4][5][6]	P. Venkatagiriyapa		Independent politician
1967[7][8]
1972[9][10]	D. Venkataramiah		Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978[11][12][13]	Md. Abdul Latheef		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983[14][15]	K. R. Srinivasaiah		Janata Party
1985[16][17]
1989[18][19][20]	K. A. Nisar Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1994[21][22][23]	K. Srinivasa Gowda		Janata Dal
1999[24][25]			Janata Dal (United)
2004[26][27]			Indian National Congress
2008	R. Varthur Prakash		Independent politician
2013
2018[28][29]	K. Srinivasa Gowda		Janata Dal (Secular)
2023	Kothur G. Manjunath		Indian National Congress

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar^[1][30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kothur G. Manjunath	83,990	43.56	+22.04
	JD(S)	C. M. R. Srinath	53,229	27.61	−18.61
	BJP	R. Varthur Prakash	50,914	26.41	+19.45
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,005	0.52	−0.15
Majority			30,761	15.95	−8.92
Turnout			192,818	80.18	+0.64
	INC gain from JD(S)		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar^[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	K. Srinivasa Gowda	82,788	46.22
	INC	Syed Zameer Pasha	38,537	21.52
	Namma Congress	R. Varthur Prakash	35,544	19.85
	BJP	R. Venkatachalapathi	12,458	6.96
	Independent	Gowramma	2,085	1.16
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,195	0.67
Margin of victory			44,251	24.87
Turnout			1,79,102	79.54
	JD(S) gain from Independent		Swing

1967

• P. Venkatagiriyappa (IND): 13,216 votes^[31]
• D. A. Rashid (INC): 9042 votes

1972

• D. Venkatramiah (IND): 14,639 votes^[32]
• P. Venkatagiriyappa (IND): 13,147 votes

2013

• R Vathur Prakash (IND): 62,957 votes^[33]
• K. Srinivasa Gowda (JD-S): 50,366 votes
• Naseer Ahmed (Congress): 41,510 votes
• M S Anand (BJP): 1,617 votes

See also

• Kolar District
• List of constituencies of Karnataka Legislative Assembly