Chittapur Assembly Constituency
Chittapur is one of the 225 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka a south state of India. Chittapur is also part of Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Hyderabad State
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Rudrappa S. | Indian National Congress | |
Mysore State
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Vijaya Devi Raghavender Rao | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | R. Nagappa | ||
| 1972 | Vijay Desai | ||
Karnataka State
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Prabhakar R. Telkar | Indian National Congress (Indira) | |
| 1983 | Vishwanath Patil Hebbal | Janata Party | |
| 1985 | |||
| 1989 | Babu Rao Chinchansur | Indian National Congress | |
| 1994 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | Vishwanath Patil Hebbal | Janata Dal | |
| 2008 | Mallikarjun Kharge | Indian National Congress | |
| 2009 | Valmiki Nayak | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2013 | Priyank M. Kharge | Indian National Congress | |
| 2018 | |||
| 2023 | |||
- ^ by poll
Election results
2023
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Priyank Kharge | 81,323 | 53.08 |  3.43
| |
| BJP | Manikanta Rathod | 67,683 | 44.18 |  2.35
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 816 | 0.53 | 0.22
| |
| Majority | 13,640 | 8.90 | 5.78
| ||
| Turnout | 1,53,195 | 64.98 | 4.46
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
2018
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Priyank Kharge | 69,700 | 49.65 | ||
| BJP | Valmiki Naik | 65,307 | 46.53 | ||
| BSP | Devaraja V K | 1,218 | 0.87 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,052 | 0.75 | ||
| Majority | 4,393 | 3.12 | |||
| Turnout | 1,40,369 | 60.52 | |||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
2013
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Priyank Kharge | 69,397 | 56.08 | ||
| BJP | Valmiki Naik | 38,188 | 30.87 | ||
| KJP | Gurunath | 9,596 | 7.76 | ||
| Majority | 31,209 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| INC gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
2009 by-election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Valmiki Naik | 48,365 | 47.72 | ||
| INC | Priyank Kharge | 46,759 | 45.26 | ||
| JD(S) | Basavaraj Bennur | 4,904 | 3.92 | ||
| BSP | Ayyappa Ramatheertha | 1,356 | 0.92 | ||
| Majority | 1,606 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
2008
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Mallikarjun Kharge | 49,837 | 52.16 | ||
| BJP | Valmiki Nayak | 32,395 | 33.90 | ||
| JD(S) | Basavaraj Bennur | 6,524 | 6.83 | ||
| Majority | 17,442 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||