Virajpet Assembly constituency is one of the 224

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly (formerly the Mysore Legislative Assembly) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature ...

constituencies of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

and is one among the two assembly constituencies in

Kodagu district Kodagu district () (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative List of districts of Karnataka, district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State at which point it was merged ...

. It is represented in the

by A. S. Ponnanna of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

. Virajpet Assembly constituency is a part of Mysore Lok Sabha constituency. From 1956 to 2008, it was a part of the erstwhile

Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency was one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. With the implementation of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, based on the recommendations of the Delimitation ...

and was merged with the Mysore Lok Sabha constituency in 2008 by the

Delimitation Commission The Delimitation Commission of India is a commission established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act, tasked with redrawing the boundaries of legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies bas ...

. Virajpet was part of the erstwhile

Coorg State Coorg State was a Part-C state in India which existed from 1950 to 1956. When the Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950, most of the existing provinces were reconstituted into states. Thus, Coorg Province became Coorg State ...

until 1956, when under the

States Reorganisation Act, 1956 The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States ...

, it became a part of Mysore State (now Karnataka).

Electorate

The constituency has 2.1 lakh voters and has more male voters than female voters drawing a stark contrast from

Madikeri Assembly constituency Madikeri Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India. It is part of Kodagu district and is one among the two legislative assembly constituency from the district. Madekeri Mantar Gowda wh ...

. It also has more Kodava voters than Gowdas.The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes comprises 26.8% of the vote base with ST's outnumbering SC's. The electorate is predominantly

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with

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and

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forming less than 16% of the vote base. The constituency is more rural than

Madikeri Madikeri (), earlier called as Mercara is city and headquarters of Kodagu district in the Karnataka state of India. It is recognised as one of the world's eight "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity and is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

with less than 10% urban voters.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Source

Karnataka

Election results

2023

2018

2013

2008

2004

1999

1994

1989

1985

1983

1978

1972

1967

1962

1957

References

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