Bellary Rural Assembly constituency

Legislative Assembly constituency in Karnataka, India

Bellary
Constituency No. 93 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bellary
LS constituency	Bellary
Established	2008
Total electors	2,38,361
Reservation	ST
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Incumbent B Nagendra
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

Bellary Rural Assembly seat (or just Bellary) is one of the 224 seats in Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Bellary Lok Sabha seat. The constituency is reserved for Scheduled Tribes after delimitation in 2008. It is a stronghold of B Sriramulu. It consists of 11 wards of Bellary City. The areas Cowl Bazar, TB Sanatorium, and Contonment belong to this constituency. It has both urban and rural votes.

Geographical scope

The constituency comprises ward nos. 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 of Ballari Municipal Corporation lying in Ballari taluka. Urban voters in Bellary (ST) assembly were 85,124 which was 38% in the 2011 census; rural voters were 138,887 which was around 62%.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
Till 2008	See: Bellary
2008	B Sriramulu	Bharatiya Janata Party
2011^		Independent
2013		Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress
2014^	NY Gopalkrishna	Indian National Congress
2018^[1]	B Nagendra
2023^[2]	B Nagendra

^By election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election : Bellary^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	B Nagendra	103,836	57.84%
	BJP	B Sriramulu	74,536	40.80%
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,142	1.04
Margin of victory			29,300	16.04%
Turnout			1,81,566	76.1%
Registered electors			2,14,975
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election : Bellary^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	B Nagendra	79,186	48.54%
	BJP	Sanna Pakirappa	76,507	46.90%
	JD(S)	D Ramesh	3,212	1.97%
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,695	1.04
Margin of victory			2,679	1.64%
Turnout			1,63,128	74.39%
Registered electors			2,14,975
	INC hold		Swing

1967 Assembly Election

votes ^[5]

Sanna Pakirappa (BJS) : 76,507 votes

V. Nagappa (Swatantra) : 27,052 votes

T.G. Sathyanarayan (INC) : 11,963

References

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^ India Today (14 May 2023). "Karnataka Election Results 2023 winners: Full list of winning candidates". Archived from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
^ "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1967". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.