Sedam Assembly constituency

Sedam Assembly seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka in India. It is part of Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Sedam
Constituency No. 41 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Kalaburagi
Lok Sabha constituency	Gulbarga
Established	1956
Total electors	225,688[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sharan Prakash Patil
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

Assembly members

Hyderabad State

The constituency was formerly part of Tandur-Sedam Vidhan Sabha constituency of Hyderabad state.

Year	Member	Party
1952[3]	J. K. Praneshchari		Indian National Congress

After linguistic reorganization, Tandur-Sedam constituency was divided into two constituencies: Tandur in Andhra Pradesh (later Telangana) and Sedam in Mysore State.

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1957[4][5]	Mallappa Lingappa		Indian National Congress
	Jamadanda Papiah Sarvesh		Independent politician
1962[6][7][8]			Indian National Congress
1967[9][10]			Swatantra Party
1972[11][12]			Indian National Congress

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978[13][14][15]	Sher Khan		Indian National Congress
1983[16][17]	Nagareddy Patil Sedam		Bharatiya Janata Party
1985[18][19]	Chandershekhar Reddy Madna		Independent politician
1989[20][21][22]	Basavanathareddy Patil Motakpalli		Indian National Congress
1994[23][24][25]	Chandershekhar Reddy Madna		Janata Dal
1999[26][27]	Basavanathareddy Patil Motakpalli		Indian National Congress
2004[28][29]	Sharan Prakash Patil
2008[30][31]
2013[32][33][34]
2018[35]	Rajkumar Patil		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023[36]	Sharan Prakash Patil		Indian National Congress

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Sedam^[1][37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sharan Prakash Patil	93,377	53.06	+6.73
	BJP	Rajkumar Patil	49816	28.31	−22.56
	JD(S)	Balraj Guttedar	21,125	12.00	+10.69
	KRPP	G. Mallesh Reddy	6,712	3.81	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	691	0.39	−0.40
Majority			43,561	24.75	+20.21
Turnout			175,997	77.98	+4.28
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Sedam^[38][39]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajkumar Patil	80,668	50.87
	INC	Sharan Prakash Patil	73,468	46.33
	JD(S)	Sunita Mahantesh Talawar Malkhed	2,075	1.31
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,260	0.79
Majority			7,200	4.54
Turnout			1,58,570	73.70
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly