Karnataka assembly election, May 2013

224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka, 71.77% turnout.

Seats

224

Candidates

2,948

175 women, 6 elected

Turnout

71.77%

3.14 cr of 4.37 cr

Leading party

INC

122 of 224 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in Karnataka

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
INC Indian National Congress	122	+42	224	1,14,73,025	36.59%	+1.84
JD(S)JD(S)	40	+12	222	63,29,158	20.19%	+1.23
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	40	-70	223	62,36,227	19.89%	-13.97
IND Independent	9	+3	1217	23,13,386	7.38%	+0.46
KJP KJP	6	+6	204	30,69,207	9.79%	—
BSRCP BSRCP	4	+4	176	8,44,588	2.69%	—
SKP SKP	1	+1	6	1,09,039	0.35%	-0.05
SP Samajwadi Party	1	+1	27	1,05,948	0.34%	-0.59
KMP KMP	1	+1	7	55,867	0.18%	—
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	175	2,84,768	0.91%	-1.83
SDPI Social Democratic Party of India	0	0	23	98,249	0.31%	—
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	0	33	81,145	0.26%	+0.02
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	116	69,865	0.22%	-0.11
LSP LSP	0	0	23	64,422	0.21%	—
CPI Communist Party of India	0	0	8	25,450	0.08%	-0.03
KCVP KCVP	0	0	3	19,454	0.06%	+0.01
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	24	18,886	0.06%	—
RPI RPI	0	0	6	12,498	0.04%	-0.06
BDBRAJP BDBRAJP	0	0	18	12,277	0.04%	—
SAJP SAJP	0	0	18	12,160	0.04%	—
ADMK All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	0	5	10,280	0.03%	0.00
WPOI WPOI	0	0	12	9,783	0.03%	—
NPP NPP	0	0	21	9,136	0.03%	—
RPIA RPIA	0	0	12	8,193	0.03%	0.00
HND HND	0	0	11	8,088	0.03%	—
SJPA Samajwadi Jan Parishad	0	0	10	7,381	0.02%	—
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	15	6,696	0.02%	-0.09
KRRS KRRS	0	0	7	5,954	0.02%	—
PPOI PPOI	0	0	11	5,832	0.02%	—
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	8	5,634	0.02%	-0.02
ANC ANC	0	0	10	5,372	0.02%	0.00
SUCI SUCI	0	0	11	5,353	0.02%	—
HJP HJP	0	0	8	4,798	0.02%	—
RCMP RCMP	0	0	8	3,330	0.01%	—
SDP SDP	0	0	1	2,942	0.01%	—
BPJP BPJP	0	0	5	2,324	0.01%	0.00
NDEP NDEP	0	0	3	1,697	0.01%	0.00
AMJP AMJP	0	0	5	1,662	0.01%	—
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	5	1,474	0.00%	-0.01
RSPS Rashtriya Samaj Paksha	0	0	1	1,336	0.00%	—

INC122 (54%)
JD(S)40 (18%)
BJP40 (18%)
IND9 (4%)
KJP6 (3%)
BSRCP4 (2%)
Others3 (1%)

INC122
JD(S)40
BJP40
IND9
KJP6
BSRCP4
Others3

INC122
JD(S)40
BJP40
IND9
KJP6
BSRCP4
SKP1
SP1
Others1

Constituency performance

From the 224 results in Karnataka

Closest contest

HAGARIBOMMANAHALLI

won by 125 (0.09%)

Biggest victory

ARABHAVI

won by 75,221 (51.84%)

Highest turnout

HOSAKOTE

90.97%

Lowest turnout

GULBARGA UTTAR

50.23%

Seat change

Against Karnataka's previous Vidhan Sabha election (2008), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained98 (44%)
Changed hands126 (56%)

98 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 126 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

Karnataka, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

INC
JD(S)
BJP
IND

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 224 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 224

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
AFZALPUR	INCMALIKAYYA VENKAYYA GUTTEDAR	KJPM.Y.PATIL	5,2384.07%	67.6%
ALAND	KJPB.R. PATIL	JD(S)GUTTEDAR SUBHASH RUKMAYYA	17,11412.93%	68.6%
ANEKAL	INCSHIVANNA B.	BJPA. NARAYANASWAMY	40,18221.55%	68.9%
ARABHAVI	BJPBALACHANDRA LAXMANRAO JARKIHOLI	INCUTAGI RAMAPPA KAREPPA	75,22151.84%	73.9%
ARKALGUD	INCMANJU A	JD(S)A.T RAMASWAMY	8,7945.16%	86.0%
ARSIKERE	JD(S)K.M.SHIVALINGE GOWDA	INCB.SHIVARAMU	29,63118.65%	80.5%
ATHANI	BJPLAXMAN SANGAPPA SAVADI	INCMAHESH IRANAGOUDA KUMATHALLI	23,77116.25%	78.6%
AURAD	BJPPRABHU B. CHAVAN	KJPDHANAJI BHEEMA JADHAV	23,19117.96%	68.3%
B.T.M LAYOUT	INCRAMALINGAREDDY	BJPN. SUDHAKAR	49,04844.39%	53.4%
BABALESHWAR	INCM.B.PATIL	JD(S)PATIL VIJUGOUDA	4,3553.24%	73.0%
BADAMI	INCCHIMMANAKATTI BALAPPA BHIMAPPA	JD(S)MAHANTESH GURUPADAPPA MAMADAPUR	15,11310.87%	70.7%
BAGALKOT	INCMETI HULLAPPA YAMANAPPA	BJPCHARANTIMATH VEERANNA CHANDRASHEKHARAYYA	2,9002.07%	69.5%
BAGEPALLI	INDS.N SUBBAREDDY(CHINNAKAYAL APALLI)	CPMSRIRAMAREDDY G.V	30,75520.44%	85.5%
BAILHONGAL	KJPDR\|\| VISHWANATH IRANAGOUDA PATIL	BJPJAGADISH C. METGUD	3,6212.86%	77.7%
BANGALORE SOUTH	BJPM. KRISHNAPPA	JD(S)R. PRABHAKARA REDDY	30,16212.03%	56.0%
BANGARAPET	INCS.N.NARAYANASWAMY.K.M	BJPEM NARAYANASWAMY	28,37720.00%	82.0%
BANTVAL	INCB.RAMANATHA RAI	BJPRAJESH NAIK ULIPADY	17,85011.43%	79.3%
BASAVAKALYAN	JD(S)MALLIKARJUN SIDRAMAPPA KHUBA	INCB. NARAYANRAO	15,89312.60%	63.7%
BASAVANA BAGEVADI	INCSHIVANAND S PATIL	BJPBELLUBBI SANGAPPA KALLAPPA	19,67615.52%	72.1%
BASAVANAGUDI	BJPRAVI SUBRAMANYA.L.A.	JD(S)K.BAGEGOWDA	19,71319.02%	52.2%
BELGAUM DAKSHIN	INDSAMBHAJI LAKSHMAN PATIL	BJPABHAY PATIL	6,3104.78%	65.2%
BELGAUM RURAL	BJPSANJAY B PATIL	INDKINEKAR MANOHAR KALLAPPA	1,3350.88%	74.0%
BELGAUM UTTAR	INCFAIROZ NURUDDIN SAITH	INDRENU SUHAS KILLEKAR	18,21015.81%	59.4%
BELLARY	BSRCPB. SREERAMULU	INCASUNDI VANNURAPPA	33,29425.55%	75.3%
BELLARY CITY	INCANIL LAD	BSRCPS. MURALI KRISHNA	18,20015.23%	61.5%
BELTHANGADY	INCK. VASANTHA BANGERA	BJPRANJAN G. GOWDA	15,74110.76%	75.4%
BELUR	INCY.N RUDRESHA GOWDA	JD(S)K.S.LINGESHA	7,5295.66%	76.0%
BHADRAVATI	JD(S)APPAJI. M.J	INDB.K.SANGAMESHWARA	44,09930.72%	72.0%
BHALKI	INCESHWARA KHANDRE	KJPSIDRAM D.K.	9,6696.57%	73.4%
BHATKAL	INDMANKALA SUBBA VAIDYA	JD(S)ENAYATHULLAH SHABANDRI	9,8847.35%	70.9%
BIDAR	KJPGURUPADAPPA NAGAMARPALLI	INCRAHEEM KHAN	2,5712.28%	59.4%
BIDAR SOUTH	KMPASHOK KHENY	JD(S)BANDEPPA KHASHEMPUR	15,78812.64%	68.9%
BIJAPUR CITY	INCMAKBUL S BAGAWAN	JD(S)BASANAGOUDA R PATIL (YATNAL)	9,3807.88%	56.2%
BILGI	INCJ . T. PATIL	BJPMURAGESH. RUDRAPPA. NIRANI	11,2387.53%	78.3%
BOMMANAHALLI	BJPSATHISH REDDY.M	INCNAGABHUSHANA.C	25,85214.80%	54.1%
BYADGI	INCBASAVARAJ NEELAPPA SHIVANNANAVAR	KJPSHIVARAJ SAJJANAR	13,3598.92%	83.0%
BYATARAYANAPURA	INCKRISHNA BYRE GOWDA	BJPA.RAVI	32,40015.55%	63.0%
BYNDOOR	INCK.GOPALA POOJARY	BJPB.M. SUKUMAR SHETTY	31,14921.03%	76.0%
C.V. RAMAN NAGAR	BJPS. RAGHU	INCP. RAMESH	8,4197.93%	53.9%
CHALLAKERE	INCT RAGHUMURTHY	KJPK T KUMARASWAMY	23,12315.65%	78.3%
CHAMARAJA	INCVASU	JD(S)H.S.SHANKARALINGE GOWDA	12,91511.75%	55.4%
CHAMARAJANAGAR	INCC.PUTTARANGASHETTY	KJPK.R.MALLIKARJUNAPPA	11,1967.63%	78.5%
CHAMRAJPET	JD(S)B.Z.ZAMEER AHMED KHAN	INCG.A.BAVA	30,16228.01%	58.8%
CHAMUNDESHWARI	JD(S)G.T. DEVE GOWDA	INCM. SATHYANARAYANA	7,1034.01%	73.9%
CHANNAGIRI	INCVADNAL RAJANNA	KJPK.MADAL VIRUPAKSHAPPA	1,7731.24%	81.5%
CHANNAPATNA	SPC P YOGESHWARA	JD(S)ANITHA KUMARASWAMY	6,4643.84%	84.8%
CHICKPET	INCR.V. DEVRAJ	BJPUDAY.B.GARUDACHAR	13,05912.00%	58.0%
CHIKKABALLAPUR	INCDR. K SUDHAKAR	JD(S)K P BACHEGOWDA	15,04810.26%	83.2%
CHIKKODI-SADALGA	INCPRAKASH BABANNA HUKKERI	BJPBASAVANNI RUDRAPPA SANGAPPAGOL	76,58851.27%	79.8%
CHIKMAGALUR	BJPC T RAVI	INCK S SHANTHE GOWDA	10,9887.90%	72.7%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in Karnataka alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.