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Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Current MP
  
B. S. Yeddyurappa

Total Electors
  
1,562,243

Member of parliament
  
B. S. Yeddyurappa

State
  
Karnataka

Female electors
  
783,474

Elected Year
  
2014

Most Successful Party
  
INC (11 times)

Party
  
Bharatiya Janata Party

Male electors
  
778,767

Last election
  
Indian general election, 2014

Assembly segments
  
Tirthahalli, Sagar, Shimoga, Bhadravati, Byndoor, Shikaripur, Sorab, Shimoga Rural

Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. As of 2005 it had 1,286,181 voters, of whom Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for 220,000; Lingayats for 200,000; Deevaru for 180,000; Muslims for 160,000; and Brahmins and Vokkaligas for 125,000 each.

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Assembly segments

Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency consists eight assembly segments covering Sagara, Shikaripura, Sorab, Shivamogga, Bhadravathi and Tithahalli taluks in Shimoga district. These are:

  1. Shimoga Rural
  2. Bhadravati
  3. Shimoga
  4. Tirthahalli
  5. Shikaripur
  6. Soraba
  7. Sagar
  8. Byndoor

Members of Parliament

  • 1951: K.G. Wodeyar, Indian National Congress
  • 1957: K.G. Wodeyar, Indian National Congress
  • 1962: S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao, Indian National Congress
  • 1967: J. H. Patel, Samyukta Socialist Party
  • 1971: T. V. Chandrashekarappa, Indian National Congress
  • 1977: A. R. Badri Narayan, Indian National Congress
  • 1980: S. T. Quadri, Indian National Congress (I)
  • 1984: T. V. Chandrashekarappa, Indian National Congress (I)
  • 1989: T. V. Chandrashekarappa, Indian National Congress (I)
  • 1991: K.G. Shivappa, Indian National Congress (I)
  • 1996: Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian National Congress
  • 1998: Ayanur Manjunath, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • 1999: Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian National Congress
  • 2004: Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • 2005: Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Samajwadi Party
  • 2009: B. Y. Raghavendra, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • 2014: B. S. Yeddyurappa, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • References

    Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency) Wikipedia