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 151–200 of 224

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
MOLAKALMURU	BSRCPS. THIPPESWAMY	INCN. Y. GOPALAKRISHNA	7,1694.36%	79.4%
MOODABIDRI	INCK ABHAYACHANDRA	BJPUMANATHA KOTIAN	4,5503.53%	74.2%
MUDDEBIHAL	INCAPPAJI URF CHANNABASAVARAJ SHANKARAO NADAGOUD	KJPVIMALABAI JAGADEVRAO DESHMUKH	12,20210.64%	65.9%
MUDHOL	BJPGOVIND.M.KARJOL	INCTIMMAPUR.RAMAPPA. BALAPPA.	5,1784.01%	77.6%
MUDIGERE	JD(S)B.B. NINGAIAH	INCB.N. CHANDRAPPA	6350.58%	72.2%
MULBAGAL	INDG.MANJUNATHA	JD(S)N. MUNIANJAPPA	33,73424.32%	80.9%
NAGAMANGALA	JD(S)N.CHALUVARAYASWAMY (SWAMY GOWDA)	INCSURESH GOWDAA	20,36312.44%	81.5%
NAGTHAN	INCRAJU ALAGUR	JD(S)DEVANAND PHULSING CHAVAN	6670.48%	62.1%
NANJANGUD	INCV.SRINIVASA PRASAD	JD(S)KALALE N .KESHAVAMURTHY	8,9416.34%	76.2%
NARASIMHARAJA	INCTANVEER SAIT	SDPIABDUL MAJID K H	8,3707.23%	54.7%
NARGUND	INCB R YAVAGAL	BJPC C PATIL	8,5856.67%	74.9%
NAVALGUND	JD(S)N.H.KONARADDI	BJPPATIL MUNENAKOPPA SHANKAR	2,6691.94%	75.1%
NELAMANGALA	JD(S)DR K SRINIVASAMURTHY	INCANJANAMURTHY	15,10310.81%	76.6%
NIPPANI	BJPJOLLE SHASHIKALA ANNASAHEB	INCKAKASO PANDURANG PATIL	18,66212.22%	80.5%
PADMANABA NAGAR	BJPR ASHOKA	INCL.S.CHETHAN GOWDA	20,12315.68%	58.4%
PAVAGADA	JD(S)K.M.THIMMARAYAPPA	INCH.V.VENKATESH	4,8633.35%	78.1%
PERIYAPATNA	INCK.VENKATESH	JD(S)K.MAHADEV	2,0881.53%	83.9%
PULAKESHINAGAR	JD(S)AKHANDA SRINIVAS MURTHY.R	INCB.PRASANNA KUMAR	10,19910.15%	56.4%
PUTTUR	INCSHAKUNTALA T SHETTY	BJPSANJEEVA MATANDOOR	4,2893.00%	79.5%
RAICHUR	JD(S)DR. SHIVARAJ PATIL S.	INCSYED YASIN	7,8717.93%	53.7%
RAICHUR RURAL	BJPTHIPPARAJU	INCRAJA RAYAPPA NAIK	3,2702.43%	68.9%
RAJAJI NAGAR	BJPS.SURESH KUMAR	INCR.MANJULA NAIDU	14,76713.70%	61.2%
RAJARAJESHWARINAGAR	INCMUNIRATHNA	JD(S)K.L.R.THIMMANANJAIAH	18,8139.90%	56.8%
RAMANAGARAM	JD(S)H D KUMARA SWAMY	INCMARIDEVARU	25,39817.08%	80.5%
RAMDURG	INCASHOK MAHADEVAPPA PATTAN	BJPYADAWAD SHIVALINGAPPA MAHADEVAPPA	4,9843.86%	74.9%
RANIBENNUR	INCKOLIWAD K.B	INDR.SHANKAR	6,7884.26%	79.3%
RAYBAG	BJPAIHOLE DURYODHAN MAHALINGAPPA	INDPRADEEP RAMU MALAGI	8290.68%	75.1%
RON	INCGURUPADAGOUDA SANGANAGOUDA PATIL	BJPKALAKAPPA GURUSHANTHAPPA BANDI	18,22712.49%	74.5%
SAGAR	INCKAGODU THIMMAPPA	KJPB.R. JAYANTH	41,24830.02%	76.4%
SAKLESHPUR	JD(S)KUMARASWAMY H.K.	INCD. MALLESH	33,06923.54%	77.4%
SANDUR	INCE.TUKARAM	JD(S)DHANANJAYA.R	34,63126.97%	74.7%
SARVAGNANAGAR	INCK.J. GEORGE	BJPPADMANABHA REDDY	22,85316.25%	50.2%
SAUNDATTI YELLAMMA	BJPANAND ALIAS VISHWANATH CHANDRASHEKHAR MAMANI	INCRAVINDRA BHUPALAPPA YALIGAR	16,04212.05%	78.9%
SEDAM	INCDR SHARANPRAKASH PATIL	BJPRAJKUMAR PATIL	11,8958.75%	73.4%
SHAHAPUR	KJPGURU PATIL SHIRAVAL	INCSHARANABASAPPAGOUDA DARSHANPUR	5,7964.56%	67.6%
SHANTI NAGAR	INCN.A.HARIS	JD(S)K. VASUDEVA MURTHY	20,18719.48%	57.7%
SHIGGAON	BJPBASAVARAJ BOMMAI	INCKHADRI SAYED AZIMPEER SAYED KADERBASHA	9,5036.33%	79.7%
SHIKARIPURA	KJPB.S.YADIYURAPPA	INCH.S.SHANTHAVEERAPPAGOW DA(SHANTANNA)	24,42517.63%	80.2%
SHIMOGA	INCK.B. PRASANNAKUMAR	KJPS. RUDREGOWDA	2780.20%	64.7%
SHIMOGA RURAL	JD(S)SHARADA POORYANAIK	KJPG.BASAVANNAPPA	10,1097.06%	77.0%
SHIRAHATTI	INCDODDAMANI RAMAKRISHNA SHIDDLINGAPPA	BJPRAMAPPA SOBEPPA LAMANI	3150.24%	71.8%
SHIVAJINAGAR	INCR.ROSHAN BAIG	BJPNIRMAL SURANA	20,85522.94%	54.3%
SHORAPUR	INCRAJA VENKATAPPA NAYAK	JD(S)NARASIMHANAYAK (RAJUGOUDA)	4,0752.79%	66.4%
SHRAVANABELAGOLA	JD(S)C.N.BALAKRISHNA	INCC.S.PUTTEGOWDA	24,14215.49%	82.2%
SHRIRANGAPATTANA	JD(S)A.B. RAMESHA BANDISIDDEGOWDA	INDRAVINDRA SRIKANTAIAH	13,6248.63%	80.8%
SIDLAGHATTA	JD(S)M. RAJANNA	INCV. MUNIYAPPA	15,47910.07%	86.9%
SINDGI	BJPBHUSANUR RAMESH BALAPPA	JD(S)MANAGULI MALLAPPA CHANNAVEERAPPA	7520.59%	69.4%
SINDHANUR	INCBADARLI HAMPANAGOUDA	BSRCPK.KARIYAPPA	13,0168.96%	72.6%
SIRA	INCT B JAYACHANDRA	JD(S)B.SATHYANARAYANA	14,6819.21%	79.1%
SIRSI	BJPANANT KAGERI VISHWESHWAR HEGDE	INCAYYAPPANAGAR DEEPAK HONNAVAR	3,0592.33%	75.3%

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.