Sakleshpur Assembly constituency

Sakleshpur
Sakleshpur
Constituency No. 199 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Hassan
Lok Sabha constituency	Hassan
Established	1961
Total electors	205,876 (2023)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Cement Manju
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	H. K. Kumaraswamy

Sakleshpur Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India.^[2]

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It is part of Hassan district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes. Cement Manju is the current MLA as he won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.

Year	Member
Before 1961: Constituency did not exist
1962	S. A. Vasanna Setty	Indian National Congress
1967	K. P. Chikkegowda	Swatantra Party
1972	K. M. Rudrappa	Indian National Congress

Year	Member
1978	J. D. Somappa	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983	J. D. Somappa	Indian National Congress
1985	B. D. Basavaraj	Janata Party
1989	B R Gurudev	Indian National Congress
1994	B. B. Shivappa	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	B. B. Shivappa	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	H. M. Vishwanath	Janata Dal (Secular)
2008	H. K. Kumaraswamy
2013
2018
2023	Cement Manju	Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Cement Manju	58,604	35.54	−0.06
	JD(S)	H. K. Kumaraswamy	56,548	34.29	−4.38
	INC	Murali Mohan	42,811	25.96	+2.98
	BSP	D. Shivamma	1,536	0.93
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,231	0.75	−0.24
Majority			2,056	1.25	−1.82
Turnout			164,898	80.1	−2.17
	BJP gain from JD(S)		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(S)	H. K. Kumaraswamy	62,262	38.67
	BJP	Somashekar Jayaraj	57,320	35.60
	INC	Siddaiah	37,002	22.98
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,597	0.99
Majority			4,942	3.07
Turnout			1,61,008	82.27
	JD(S) hold		Swing

Members of the Legislative Assembly