Bangalore, Augsut 25:The Assembly constituency-wise break-up of votes in the recently held by-polls to Bangalore (Rural) and Mandya Lok Sabha seats has revealed that the JD(S) could not get a majority in seven of the eight constituencies where it has sitting MLAs.
The two Lok Sabha constituencies which went to the by-polls have eight Assembly segments each. Of the eight Assembly constituency in Bangalore (Rural) Lok Sabha segment, JD(S) won three in the May 5 Assembly polls. In just around four months, it has lost in terms of vote share in Kunigal and Magadi to the Congress.
The Congress’ D K Suresh has won more votes in these two Assembly constituencies. Only in Ramanagara Assembly segment (represented by Kumaraswamy in the Assembly) JD(S) candidate Anita Kumaraswamy got more votes than her Congress rival.
In Mandya, it has lost out in five Assembly constituencies where it has sitting MLAs to the Congress. These include Maddur (sitting MLA D C Thammanna), Srirangapatna (Ramesh Bandisidde Gowda), Nagamangala (N Chaluvarayaswamy), K R Pet (Narayana Gowda) and Krishnarajnagar (Sa Ra Mahesh).
Bangalore Rural constituency:
Winner : D K Suresh (Congress)
Loser : Anitha Kumaraswamy (JD-S)
Constituency Congress JD(S)
Kunigal 56,340 51,442
Rajarajeshwarinagar 56,426 51,146
Bangalore South 78,994 54,681
Anekal 78,738 41,517
Magadi 72,443 68,187
Ramanagara 62,070 65,849
Kanakapura 1,00,703 48,851
Channapatna 72,894 59,927
Postal ballots 1 0
Total 4,41,601 5,78,608
(While JD(S) walked away with a vote share of 41.9 per cent,
Congress had a vote share of 54.94 per cent)
Mandya Constituency:
Winner : Ramya (congress)
Loser : C S Puttaraju (Jd-S)
Assembly constituency Congress JD(S)
Malavalli 73,920 50,521
Maddur 61,058 50,538
Melkote 58,840 66,511
Mandya 60,182 46,101
Srirangapatna 60,908 52,134
Nagamangala 61,770 49,512
KR Pet 60,321 54,409
KR Nagar 47,084 46,747
Postal ballots 1 2
Total 4,16,474 4,84,085
(While JD(S) walked away with a vote share of 44.1 per cent,
Congress recieved a share of 51.3 per cent)
