Kolar Gold Field Assembly constituency

Kolar Gold Fields is one of the constituencies in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Kolar Lok Sabha constituency.

Kolar Gold Fields
Constituency No. 146 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
Division	Bangalore
District	Kolar
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolar
Established	1951
Total electors	199,982[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent M. Roopakala
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Y. Ramakka

This constituency has been reserved for Scheduled Castes since its establishment. It was represented by two members until the 1957 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election. Due to the prevalence of Tamil labourers in the gold fields, mainly Dalits, the constituency was represented by Tamils (and sometimes Tamil Nadu regional parties) until 2008, when the delimitation made Tamils a less decisive factor.^[2]

Members of Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1952	P. M. Swamidorai		All India Scheduled Caste Federation
	K. S. Vasan		Communist Party of India
1957	C. M. Arumugam		All India Scheduled Caste Federation
	M. C. Narasimhan		Communist Party of India
1962[3][4][5]	S. Rajagopal
1967[6][7]	S. R. Gopal		Indian National Congress
1968^	S. R. Shanmugam
1972[8][9]	C. M. Arumugam		Republican Party of India

^by-election

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978	C. M. Arumugam		Republican Party of India
1983	M. Bhaktavatchalam		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1985	T. S. Mani		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	M. Bhaktavatchalam		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1994	S. Rajendran		Bharatiya Rashtriya Party
1999	M. Bhaktavatchalam		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2004	S. Rajendran		Republican Party of India
2008[10]	Y. Sampangi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Y. Ramakka
2018[11][12]	M. Roopakala		Indian National Congress
2023[1]

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar Gold Field^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Roopakala	81,569	55.10	+4.12
	BJP	Ashwini Sampangi	31,102	21.01	−0.72
	RPI	S. Rajendran	29,795	20.12	+5.51
	JD(S)	V. M. Ramesh Babu	1,360	0.92	−5.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,383	0.93	−0.32
Majority			50,467	34.09	+4.84
Turnout			148,051	74.03	+0.83
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar Gold Field^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Roopakala	71,151	50.98
	BJP	Ashwini Sampangi	30,324	21.73
	RPI	S. Rajendran	20,393	14.61
	JD(S)	M. Backthavachalam	8,976	6.43
	CPI(M)	P. Thangaraj	1,746	1.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,750	1.25
Majority			40,827	29.25
Turnout			1,39,569	73.20
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2013

• Ramakka Y. (BJP): 55,014 votes^[13]
• M. Backthavachalam (JD-S): 28,992 votes

1967

• S. R. Gopal (INC): 20,024 votes^[14]
• C. M. Armugam (RPI): 15,261 votes

See also

• Kolar district
• List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly