Shivajinagar, Karnataka Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Karnataka legislative assembly in India

Shivajinagar
Constituency No. 162 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bangalore Urban
LS constituency	Bangalore Central
Total electors	194,070 (2023)^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rizwan Arshad
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	R. Roshan Baig

Shivajinagar is one of the seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]^[3]^[4] After the boundaries of this constituency were redrawn in 2008 delimitation exercise, it became a stronghold of Roshan Baig. But he left Congress in 2019. Muslims and Christians make up 38% and 4% of the electorate in this constituency respectively.^[5]^[6]

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member
Till 1967: Seat does not exist. See Broadway
1967	H. R. Abdul Gaffar	Indian National Congress
1972	Hamid Sha	Indian National Congress (Organization)

Karnataka State

Year	Member
1978	C. M. Ibrahim	Janata Party
1983	M. Rahupathy
1985	Roshan Baig
1989	A. K. Anantha Krishna	Indian National Congress
1994	Roshan Baig	Janata Dal
1999	Katta Subramanya Naidu	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Katta Subramanya Naidu	Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	R. Roshan Baig	Indian National Congress
2013
2018^[7]^[8]
2019^[a]	Rizwan Arshad
2023	Rizwan Arshad

^ bypoll

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Shivajinagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rizwan Arshad	64,913	58.77	+5.23
	BJP	N. Chandra	41,719	37.77	−1.27
	AAP	Prakash Nedungadi	1,634	1.48
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,235	1.12	+0.06
Majority			23,194	21.0	+6.50
Turnout			110,447	56.91	+8.86
	INC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections: Shivajinagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rizwan Arshad	49,890	53.54	−1.50
	BJP	M. Saravana	36,369	39.04	−2.15
	SDPI	Abdul Hannan	3,141	3.37
	JD(S)	Tanveer Ahmed Ullah	1,098	1.18	−0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	986	1.06	−0.46
Margin of victory			13,521	14.50	+0.65
Turnout			93,149	48.05	−7.11
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Shivajinagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	R. Roshan Baig	59,742	55.04
	BJP	Katta Subramanya Naidu	44,702	41.19
	JD(S)	Shaik Masthan Ali	1,313	1.21
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,654	1.52
Majority			15,040	13.85
Turnout			1,08,534	55.16
	INC hold		Swing

1999 Vidhan Sabha

Katta Subramanya Naidu (BJP) : 28756 votes ^[9]
K Govindaraj (INC) : 18,203 votes

1983 Vidhan Sabha

M. Raghupathy (Janatha Party) : 21,319
C. M. Ibrahim (Congress) : 13,792

References

^ "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election - 2023". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
^ Sitting and previous MLAs from Shivajinagar Assembly constituency
^ List of elected members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
^ DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008
^ Mondal, Dhanya Rajendran,Shivani Kava,Sudipto (23 February 2023). "BJP is pushing for thousands of voters to be deleted in a Muslim-dominated Bengaluru area". The News Minute. Retrieved 6 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Assembly Constituency Details: Sarvagnanangar". chanakyya.com.
^ "Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election -2018". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
^ "Karnataka 2018 - Candidate-wise Votes Details" (PDF). ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in. Chief Election Office - Karnataka. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
^ "Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1999".