Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Tejasvi Surya (BJP) defeats Soumya Reddy (INC) from Bengaluru South

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Among Karnataka’s one of the prominent seats, Bangalore South is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituencies in southern India.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Tejasvi Surya of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in the Karnataka's Bengaluru South constituency with a margin of 2,77,083 votes defeating Sowmya Reddy of the Congress party. 

Among Karnataka’s one of the prominent seats, Bangalore South is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituencies in southern India. The constituency consist of eight Assembly segments - Basavanagudi, BTM Layout, Bommanahalli, Chickpet, Govindraj Nagar, Jayanagar, Padmanabhanagar, and Vijayanagar.

What are the issues?

Bengaluru South, being a part of the tech hub of Bengaluru, often grapples with issues related to infrastructure such as traffic congestion, inadequate public transportation, and poor road conditions. People are also looking for the need for sustainable urban development, along with water scarcity issues due to rapid urbanization, depletion of water bodies, and pollution. Environmental degradation, including air and water pollution, is a significant concern.

Despite being a major IT hub, there may be concerns about employment opportunities, especially for the youth, and the need to diversify the local economy beyond the IT sector. Voters may also be concerned about effective representation in the Lok Sabha and the ability of elected representatives to address their needs and concerns.

Caste equations

According to the sources, there are about 20 lakh voters out of a total population of 24 lakh in Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency. Of which 10.5 lakh are male voters and 9.5 lakh are female voters. At the same time, the total voters of Scheduled Caste in this seat are about 8%, while there are 1.71% voters of Scheduled Tribe here.

Who won in 2019?

Tejasvi Surya of Bharatiya Janata Party won against BK Hariprasad of Indian National Congress by a margin of 3,31,192 votes in the 2019 Indian general election. 

• BJP's Tejasvi Surya got 7,39,229 votes
• Congress's BK Hariprasad got 4,08,037 votes
• NOTA got 9,938 votes from the public

Till 2014, elections have been held 16 times on Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat, out of which Congress won 6 times. Janata Party candidate won thrice and since 1991, BJP has been winning this seat 7 times in a row. Out of these, BJP's Ananth Kumar won from here 6 times. This seat was earlier in Mysore State but after 1977, this seat became a part of Karnataka state. Earlier this seat was also known as Bengaluru.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister H Hanumantha has also won the election on Congress ticket twice on this seat. Apart from this, R Gundu Rao, who was the Chief Minister of the state in the years 1980-83, has also represented this seat in the Lok Sabha.

History of Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat

After independence, Bangalore's south constituency used to come under Mysore state. Mysore state was a state within the Union of India from 1947 until 1956. However, after the first Lok Sabha Elections, T Madiah Gowda, a freedom fighter, and a lawyer by profession won the election from Bangalore south constituency, following which under the States Reorganisation Act on 1 November 1956, few constituencies were added to Karnataka state. Not only this, Bangalore North and Bangalore South constituencies were merged to make the Bangalore constituency.
 

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