Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency

Former constituency of the Indian parliament in Karnataka

Kanakapura
Former Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
Established	1967
Abolished	2009
Reservation	None

Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency was a former Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka state in southern India. It included eight Assembly constituencies, namely Kanakapura, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Magadi, Sathanur, Uttarahalli, Malavalli and Anekal. Out of them, Kanakapura, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Magadi and Anekal assembly segments were retained in the Bangalore Rural constituency created in 2008 as part of delimitation in Karnataka. Sathanur segment was merged between Kanakapura, Ramanagaram and Channapatna constituencies. Malavalli became a part of Mandya constituency and Uttarahalli was reformed and Uttarahalli Circle was merged with new Bangalore South Assembly Constituency.

The new Assembly Constituencies Bangalore South, Anekal, and Rajarajeshwarinagar became a part of Bangalore Rural along with Kunigal Assembly Constituency from Tumkur district

Members of Parliament

Year	Member
Till 1967 : Constituency did not exist
1952	M. V. Rajasekharan	Indian National Congress
1971	C. K. Jaffer Sharief
1977	M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy
1980		Indian National Congress
1984		Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996	H. D. Kumaraswamy	Janata Dal
1998	M. Srinivas	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy	Indian National Congress
2002^	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
2004	Tejashwini Sreeramesh	Indian National Congress
After 2009 : Constituency Abolished

^ Denote By-Elections

Election results

2002 by-election

2002 By elections: Kanakapura ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	H. D. Devegowda	581,709	41.35	+27.99
	INC	D. K. Shivakumar	5,29,133	37.61	−5.78
	BJP	K. S. Eshwarappa	2,28,134	16.22	−24.21
Majority			52,576	3.74
Turnout			14,08,007
	Swing to JD(S) from INC		Swing