Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency

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Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. As of 2005 it had 1,300,000 voters, of whom Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for more than 200,000; Lingayat for around 200,000; Ediga for 250,000; Banjara for 100,000; Muslim for 150,000; and Brahmins and Vokkaliga for 105,000 and others 150,000.

Assembly segments

Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency consists of eight assembly segments. These are:

No	Name	District	Member	Party		Party Leading (in 2024)
111	Shimoga Rural (SC)	Shimoga	Sharada Puryanaik	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
112	Bhadravati		B.K. Sangameshwara	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
113	Shimoga		Channabasapa	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
114	Tirthahalli		Araga Jnanendra	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
115	Shikaripura		B. Y. Vijayendra	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
116	Sorab		Madhu Bangarappa	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
117	Sagar		Belur Gopalkrishna	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP
118	Byndoor	Udupi	Gururaj Gantihole	Template:Party name with color	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP

Members of Parliament

^ denotes By poll

Year	Member	Party
1952	K.G. Wodeyar	Template:Full party name with color
1957
1962	S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao
1967	J. H. Patel	Template:Full party name with color
1971	T. V. Chandrashekarappa	Template:Full party name with color
1977	A. R. Badrinarayan
1980	S. T. Quadri	Template:Full party name with color
1984	T. V. Chandrashekarappa	Template:Full party name with color
1989
1991	K. G. Shivappa
1996	S. Bangarappa	Template:Full party name with color
1998	Ayanur Manjunath	Template:Full party name with color
1999	S. Bangarappa	Template:Full party name with color
2004		Template:Full party name with color
2005^		Template:Full party name with color
2009	B. Y. Raghavendra	Template:Full party name with color
2014	B. S. Yediyurappa
2018^	B. Y. Raghavendra
2019
2024

Election results

General Election 2024

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2024 Indian general election: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Geetha Shivarajkumar	5,35,006	38.85
	Independent	K. S. Eshwarappa	30,050	2.18
		None of the above	4,332	0.31
Majority			2,43,715	17.69
Turnout			13,78,579	78.61
	hold		Swing

General election, 2019

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2019 Indian general elections: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		S. Madhu Bangarappa	5,06,512	39.46
		Guddappa	7,350	0.57
	IND.	Shashikumar S. Gowda	6,845	0.53
	PPI	K. Krishna	5,653	0.44
		None of the Above	6,868	0.54
Majority			2,23,360	17.40
Turnout			12,84,067	76.58
	hold		Swing	+6.13

By election, 2018

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By Election, 2018: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		S. Madhu Bangarappa	4,91,158	45.86
	IND.	Shashikumar S. Gowda	17,189	1.60
		Mahima J. Patel	8,713	0.81
		None of the Above	10,687	1.00
Majority			52,148	4.87
Turnout			10,71,099	65.06
	hold		Swing	-2.96

General election, 2014

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2014 Indian general elections: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Manjunath Bhandary	2,42,911	21.52
		Geetha Shivarajkumar	2,40,636	21.31
		K. G. Sreedhar	7,542	0.67
		Kunaje Manjunatha Gowda	5,053	0.45
		None of the Above	7,077	0.63
Turnout			11,30,364	72.36
	hold		Swing	+3.11

General election, 2009

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2009 Indian general elections: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		S. Bangarappa	4,29,890	45.04
	IND.	H. S. Shekarappa	10,850	1.14
		J. Jayappa	8,205	0.86
	AIJMK	C. Murugan	6,046	0.63
Majority			52,893	5.54
Turnout			9,54,407	66.47
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+14.58

By election, 2005

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By-Election, 2005: Shimoga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Ayanur Manjunath	2,52,376	33.77
		M. B. Bhanuprakash	1,48,640	19.89
		L. T. Thimmappa Hegde	54,578	7.30
		Shivalinga Swami	8,834	1.18
Majority			16,949	2.23
Turnout			7,48,351	58.21
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

See also

• Shimoga district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha