Kolar Assembly constituency

Legislative Assembly constituency in Karnataka, India

Kolar
Constituency No. 148 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Kolar
LS constituency	Kolar
Established	1951
Total electors	240,487^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kothur G. Manjunath
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	K. Srinivasa Gowda

Kolar Assembly seat is one of the seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Kolar Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Assembly

Mysore State

Year	Member
1952	K. Pattabhiraman	Independent politician
1957^[2]^[3]	D. Abdul Rasheed	Indian National Congress
1962^[4]^[5]^[6]	P. Venkatagiriyapa	Independent politician
1967^[7]^[8]	P. Venkatagiriyapa	Independent politician
1972^[9]^[10]	D. Venkataramiah	Indian National Congress

Karnataka State

Year	Member
1978^[11]^[12]^[13]	Md. Abdul Latheef	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1983^[14]^[15]	K. R. Srinivasaiah	Janata Party
1985^[16]^[17]	K. R. Srinivasaiah	Janata Party
1989^[18]^[19]^[20]	K. A. Nisar Ahmed	Indian National Congress
1994^[21]^[22]^[23]	K. Srinivasa Gowda	Janata Dal
1999^[24]^[25]		Janata Dal (United)
2004^[26]^[27]		Indian National Congress
2008	R. Varthur Prakash	Independent politician
2013	R. Varthur Prakash	Independent politician
2018^[28]^[29]	K. Srinivasa Gowda	Janata Dal (Secular)
2023	Kothur G. Manjunath	Indian National Congress

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kothur G. Manjunath	83,990	43.56	+22.04
	JD(S)	C. M. R. Srinath	53,229	27.61	-18.61
	BJP	R. Varthur Prakash	50,914	26.41	+19.45
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,005	0.52	-0.15
Majority			30,761	15.95	-8.92
Turnout			192,818	80.18	+0.64
	INC gain from JD(S)		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Kolar^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(S)	K. Srinivasa Gowda	82,788	46.22
	INC	Syed Zameer Pasha	38,537	21.52
	Namma Congress	R. Varthur Prakash	35,544	19.85
	BJP	R. Venkatachalapathi	12,458	6.96
	Independent	Gowramma	2,085	1.16
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,195	0.67
Margin of victory			44,251	24.87
Turnout			1,79,102	79.54
	JD(S) gain from Independent		Swing

1967

P. Venkatagiriyappa (IND) : 13,216 votes ^[30]
D. A. Rashid (INC) : 9042 votes

1972

D. Venkatramiah (IND) : 14,639 votes ^[31]
P. Venkatagiriyappa (IND) : 13,147 votes

2013

R Vathur Prakash (IND) : 62,957 votes ^[32]
K. Srinivasa Gowda (JD-S) : 50,366 votes
Naseer Ahmed (Congress) : 41,510 votes
M S Anand (BJP) : 1,617

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