2014 Indian general election in Karnataka

Indian general election, 2014 (Karnataka)
30 April 2014 & 7 May 2014 (phases 7 & 8)
28 seats
Turnout	67.20% (8.38%)
	Seat results by constituency. As this is a FPTP election, seat totals are not determined proportional to each party's total vote share, but instead by the plurality in each constituency.
Prime Minister before election; Manmohan Singh; INC	Prime Minister after election ; Narendra Modi; JP

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Karnataka for 28 Lok Sabha seats was held in a single phase on 30 April and 7 May 2014.^[1] As of 14 February 2014, the total voter strength of Karnataka is 44,694,658.^[2]

The main political parties are Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			B. S. Yediyurappa	28

United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Mallikarjun Kharge	28

Janata Dal (Secular)

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal (Secular)			H. D. Kumaraswamy	25

List of Candidates

Constituency
Constituency
1	Chikkodi	BJP	Ramesh Katti★	INC	Prakash Hukkeri★	JD(S)	Shrimant Patil
2	Belgaum	BJP	Suresh Angadi★	INC	Lakshmi Hebbalkar	JD(S)	Bagwan Nasir Papulsab
3	Bagalkot	BJP	P. C. Gaddigoudar★	INC	Ajay Kumar Sarnaik	JD(S)	Hunashyal Ravi
4	Bijapur	BJP	Ramesh Jigajinagi★	INC	Prakash Rathod★	JD(S)	K. Shivram
5	Gulbarga	BJP	Revu Naik Belamgi★	INC	Mallikarjun Kharge★	JD(S)	D. G. Sagar
6	Raichur	BJP	K. Shivanagouda Naik	INC	B. V. Nayak	JD(S)	D. B. Nayak
7	Bidar	BJP	Bhagwanth Khuba	INC	N. Dharam Singh★	JD(S)	Bandeppa Kashempur
8	Koppal	BJP	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa	INC	Basavaraj Hitnal	Did not contest
9	Bellary	BJP	B. Sriramulu	INC	N. Y. Hanumanthappa★	JD(S)	R. Ravinayaka
10	Haveri	BJP	Udasi Shivakumar Channabasappa★	INC	Saleem Ahmed★	JD(S)	Ravi Menasinakai
11	Dharwad	BJP	Pralhad Joshi★	INC	Vinay Kulkarni	JD(S)	Bankapur Hanumanthappa Mallappa
12	Uttara Kannada	BJP	Anantkumar Hegde★	INC	Prashant R. Deshpande	Did not contest
13	Davanagere	BJP	G. M. Siddeswara★	INC	S. S. Mallikarjun★	JD(S)	Mahima J. Patel
14	Shimoga	BJP	B. S. Yeddyurappa	INC	Manjunath Bhandary	JD(S)	Geetha Shivarajkumar
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	BJP	Shobha Karandlaje	INC	K. Jayaprakash Hegde★	JD(S)	V. Dhananjay Kumar
16	Hassan	BJP	C. H. Vijayashankar★	INC	Manju A. M.	JD(S)	H. D. Deve Gowda★
17	Dakshina Kannada	BJP	Nalin Kumar Kateel★	INC	Janardhana Poojary★	Did not contest
18	Chitradurga	BJP	Janardhana Swamy	INC	B. N. Chandrappa	JD(S)	Gullihatty D. Shekhar
19	Tumkur	BJP	G. S. Basavaraj★	INC	S. P. Muddahanumegowda★	JD(S)	A. Krishnappa
20	Mandya	BJP	Prof. B. Shivalingaiah	INC	Ramya	JD(S)	C. S. Puttaraju
21	Mysore	BJP	Pratap Simha	INC	Adagur H. Vishwanath★	JD(S)	Chandrashekaraiah
22	Chamarajanagar	BJP	A. R. Krishnamurthy★	INC	R. Dhruvanarayana★	JD(S)	Kote M. Shivanna
23	Bangalore Rural	BJP	P. Muniraju Gowda	INC	D. K. Suresh	JD(S)	R. Prabhakara Reddy
24	Bangalore North	BJP	D. V. Sadananda Gowda★	INC	C. Narayanaswamy	JD(S)	Abdul Azeem
25	Bangalore Central	BJP	P. C. Mohan★	INC	Rizwan Arshad	JD(S)	Nandini Alva
26	Bangalore South	BJP	Ananth Kumar★	INC	Nandan Nilekani	JD(S)	Ruth Manorama
27	Chikkballapur	BJP	B. N. Bache Gowda	INC	M. Veerappa Moily★	JD(S)	H. D. Kumaraswamy★
28	Kolar	BJP	E. M. Narayanaswamy	INC	K. H. Muniyappa★	JD(S)	Kolar Kesava

NOTE:

★ indicates candidates who contested 2009 elections and again contesting 2014 elections
D. V. Sadananda Gowda: Contested Udupi Chikmagalur for BJP in 2009 but moved to Bangalore North for BJP in 2014,.
C. H. Vijayashankar: Contested Mysore for BJP in 2009 but moved to Hassan for BJP in 2014,.
H. D. Kumaraswamy: Contested Bangalore Rural for JD(S) in 2009 but moved to Chikkballapur for JD(S) in 2014,.
S. P. Muddahanumegowda: Contested Tumkur for JD(S) in 2009 but contested the same seat for INC in 2014

Opinion polling

Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size	INC	BJP	JD(S)	AAP	Others
Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size
Aug–Oct 2013	^[3]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	24,284	13	12	3	0	0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	^[4]	India Today-CVoter	21,792	12	13	0	0	3
Jan–Feb 2014	^[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	14,000	14	11	2	1	0
March 2014	^[6]	NDTV- Hansa Research	46,571	6	20	2	0	0
March–April 2014	^[7]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	825	12–18	7–13	1 – 4 (Including Others)	0	1 – 4 (Including JD(S))
April 2014	^[8]	NDTV- Hansa Research	24,000	14	12	3	0	0

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below–

Polling Day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Voting Percentage
1	5	17 April	Chikkodi Belgaum Bagalkot Bijapur Gulbarga Raichur Bidar Koppal Bellary Haveri Dharwad Uttara Kannada, Karwar Davanagere Shimoga Udupi Chikmagalur Hassan Dakshina Kannada Chitradurga Tumkur Mandya Mysore Chamarajanagar Bangalore Rural Bangalore North Bangalore Central Bangalore South Chikkballapur Kolar	67.20^[9]

Results

Result

BJP won 17 seats. INC won 9 seats and JD (S) won 2 seats.


17	9	2
BJP	INC	JD(S)

Party-Wise Results

Party Name		Popular vote			Seats
Party Name		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	BJP	1,33,50,285	43.01	1.38	28	17	2
	INC	1,26,66,530	40.81	3.16	28	9	3
	JD(S)	34,06,465	10.97	2.60	25	2	1
	Others	8,74,187	2.82		157	0
	IND	4,83,513	1.56	2.56	196	0
	NOTA	2,57,881	0.83
Total		3,10,38,861	100%	-	434	28	-

Constituency Wise Results

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Chikkodi	Prakash Hukkeri		INC	474,373	44.27	Ramesh Katti		BJP	471,370	43.99	3,003	0.28
2	Belgaum	Suresh Angadi		BJP	554,417	51.38	Lakshmi Hebbalkar		INC	478,557	44.35	75,860	7.03
3	Bagalkot	P. C. Gaddigoudar		BJP	571,548	52.95	Ajay Kumar Sarnaik		INC	454,988	42.15	116,560	10.80
4	Bijapur	Ramesh Jigajinagi		BJP	471,757	48.80	Prakash Rathod		INC	401,938	41.57	69,819	7.23
5	Gulbarga	Mallikarjun Kharge		INC	507,193	50.82	Revu Naik Belamgi		BJP	432,460	43.33	74,733	7.49
6	Raichur	B. V. Nayak		INC	443,659	45.78	K. Shivanagouda Naik		BJP	442,160	45.63	1,499	0.15
7	Bidar	Bhagwanth Khuba		BJP	459,290	47.68	Dharam Singh		INC	367,068	38.11	92,222	9.57
8	Koppal	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		BJP	486,383	48.28	Basavaraj Hitnal		INC	453,969	45.06	32,414	3.22
9	Bellary	B. Sriramulu		BJP	534,406	51.09	N. Y. Hanumanthappa		INC	449,262	42.95	85,144	8.14
10	Haveri	Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi		BJP	566,790	50.77	Saleem Ahmed		INC	479,219	42.93	87,571	7.84
11	Dharwad	Pralhad Joshi		BJP	545,395	52.37	Vinay Kulkarni		INC	431,738	41.45	113,657	10.92
12	Uttara Kannada	Anantkumar Hegde		BJP	546,939	54.61	Prashant R Deshpande		INC	406,239	40.56	140,700	14.05
13	Davanagere	G. M. Siddeshwara		BJP	518,894	46.53	S. S. Mallikarjun		INC	501,287	44.95	17,607	1.58
14	Shimoga	B. S. Yediyurappa		BJP	606,216	53.63	Manjunath Bhandary		INC	242,911	21.49	363,305	32.14
15	Udupi Chikmagalur	Shobha Karandlaje		BJP	581,168	56.19	K. Jayaprakash Hegde		INC	399,525	38.63	181,643	17.56
16	Hassan	H. D. Devegowda		JD(S)	509,841	44.43	A. Manju		INC	409,379	35.67	100,462	8.76
17	Dakshina Kannada	Nalin Kumar Kateel		BJP	642,739	53.23	Janardhana Poojary		INC	499,030	41.32	143,709	11.91
18	Chitradurga	B. N. Chandrappa		INC	467,511	42.59	Janardhana Swamy		BJP	366,220	33.36	101,291	9.23
19	Tumkur	S. P. Muddahanumegowda		INC	429,868	39.01	G. S. Basavaraj		BJP	355,827	32.29	74,041	6.72
20	Mandya	C. S. Puttaraju		JD(S)	524,370	43.95	Ramya		INC	518,852	43.49	5,518	0.46
21	Mysore	Pratap Simha		BJP	503,908	43.45	Adagur H. Vishwanath		INC	472,300	40.73	31,608	2.72
22	Chamarajanagar	R. Dhruvanarayana		INC	567,782	50.10	A. R. Krishnamurthy		BJP	426,600	37.64	141,182	12.46
23	Bangalore Rural	D. K. Suresh		INC	652,723	44.84	P. Muniraju Gowda		BJP	421,243	28.94	231,480	15.90
24	Bangalore North	D. V. Sadananda Gowda		BJP	718,326	52.91	C. Narayanaswamy		INC	488,562	35.99	229,764	16.92
25	Bangalore Central	P. C. Mohan		BJP	557,130	51.85	Rizwan Arshad		INC	419,630	39.05	137,500	12.80
26	Bangalore South	Ananth Kumar		BJP	633,816	56.88	Nandan Nilekani		INC	405,241	36.37	228,575	20.51
27	Chikkballapur	Veerappa Moily		INC	424,800	33.61	B. N. Bache Gowda		BJP	415,280	32.86	9,520	0.75
28	Kolar	K. H. Muniyappa		INC	418,926	37.16	Kolar Kesava		JD(S)	371,076	32.92	47,850	4.24

Bye-election

By-elections were conducted after sitting MPs resigned to assume office as MLAs following the 2018 elections. The following were elected on 6 November 2018.

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
9	Bellary (ST)^[10]	V. S. Ugrappa		INC	628,365	59.99	J. Shantha		BJP	385,204	36.78	243,161	23.21
14	Shimoga^[11]	B. Y. Raghavendra		BJP	543,306	50.73	Madhu Bangarappa		JD(S)	491,158	45.86	52,148	4.87
20	Mandya^[12]	L. R. Shivarame Gowda		JD(S)	569,347	63.79	D. R. Siddaramaiah		BJP	244,404	27.38	324,943	36.41

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Karnataka

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To
1	Ananth Kumar	Bangalore South	Cabinet Minister	Chemicals and Fertilizers	27 May 2014	12 November 2018	BJP
1	Ananth Kumar	Bangalore South		Parliamentary Affairs	5 July 2016	12 November 2018
2	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Bangalore North		Railways	27 May 2014	9 November 2014
				Law and Justice	9 November 2014	5 July 2016
				Statistics and Programme Implementation	5 July 2016	30 May 2019
				Chemicals and Fertilizers	13 November 2018	30 May 2019
3	M. Venkaiah Naidu	Rajya Sabha (Karnataka)		Urban Development; Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	27 May 2014	17 July 2017
				Parliamentary Affairs	27 May 2014	5 July 2016
				Information and Broadcasting	5 July 2016	17 July 2017
4	Nirmala Sitharaman		MoS (I/C)	Commerce and Industry	27 May 2014	3 September 2017
			MoS	Finance; Corporate Affairs	27 May 2014	9 November 2014
			Cabinet Minister	Defence	3 September 2017	30 May 2019
5	G. M. Siddeshwara	Davanagere	MoS	Civil Aviation	27 May 2014	9 November 2014
5	G. M. Siddeshwara	Davanagere		Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	9 November 2014	12 July 2016
6	Ramesh Jigajinagi	Bijapur		Drinking Water and Sanitation	5 July 2016	30 May 2019
7	Anant Kumar Hegde	Uttara Kannada		Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	3 September 2017	30 May 2019

Note:

Nirmala Sitharaman represented Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha until 2016, after which she represented Karnataka.
M. Venkaiah Naidu represented Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha until July 2016, after which he represented Rajasthan.

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2018 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	132	104
	Indian National Congress	77	80
	Janata Dal (Secular)	15	37
	Others	0	3
Total		224

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