Turuvekere Assembly constituency

Turuvekere Assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, a southern state of India. It is also part of Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Turuvekere
Constituency No. 130 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Tumkur
Lok Sabha constituency	Tumkur
Established	1956
Total electors	199,012[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent M. T. Krishnappa
Party	JD(S)
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	A. S. Jayaram

M. T. Krishnappa is the current MLA from Turuvekere.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member	Party
1952	B. Hutche Gowda		Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
1957[3][4][5]	T. Subramanya		Indian National Congress
1962[6][7][8]	B. Hutchegowda		Praja Socialist Party
1967[9][10]	M. N. Ramanna		Indian National Congress
1972[11][12]	B. Bhyrappaji		Indian National Congress (Organisation)

Karnataka

Year	Member	Party
1978[13][14][15]	Byrathi Manoj		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983[16][17]	B. Bhyrappaji		Indian National Congress
1985[18][19]	K. H. Ramakrishnaiah		Janata Party
1989[20][21][22]	S. Rudrappa		Indian National Congress
1994[23][24][25]	H. B. Nanjegowda		Janata Dal
1999[26][27]	M. D. Lakshminarayana		Bharatiya Janata Party
2004[28][29]	M. T. Krishnappa		Janata Dal (Secular)
2008[30][31]	Jaggesh		Indian National Congress
2008^[32]	M. T. Krishnappa		Janata Dal (Secular)
2013[33][34][35]
2018[36][37]	A. S. Jayaram		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	M. T. Krishnappa		Janata Dal (Secular)

^by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Turuvekere^[1][38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	M. T. Krishnappa	68,163	42.51	+4.30
	BJP	A. S. Jayaram	58,240	36.32	−3.22
	INC	B. M. L. Kanthraj	30,536	19.04	+3.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	588	0.37	−0.25
Majority			9,923	6.19	+4.86
Turnout			160,338	87.75	+3.02
	JD(S) gain from BJP		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Turuvekere^[36]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	A. S. Jayaram	60,710	39.54
	JD(S)	M. T. Krishnappa	58,661	38.21
	INC	Rangappa T. Chowdri	24,584	16.01
	Independent	M. Narayan Gowda	4,566	2.97
	Independent	M. D. Ramesh	2,148	1.40
	NOTA	None of the Above	954	0.62
Majority			2,049	1.33
Turnout			153,539	84.73
	BJP gain from JD(S)		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• Tumkur district