Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Shimoga is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Karnataka. Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency consists of eight assembly segments covering parts of Nalluru and Ubrani hoblis of Channagiri taluk in Davangere district. As of 2005 it had 1,286,181 voters, of whom Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for 2.2 lakhs, Lingayats for two lakhs, Deevaru for 1.8 lakh, Muslims for 1.6 lakh, and Brahmins and Vokkaligas for 1.25 lakh each.^[1]

1 Members of Parliament
2 Election Results
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

2005 - Present : S. Bangarappa, Samajwadi Party

[edit] Election Results

Bye Election, 2005: Shimoga
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Samajwadi Party	S. Bangarappa	269,013	36.00
	Congress	Ayanur Manjunath	252,376	33.77
	BJP	M. B. Bhanuprakash	148,640	19.89
	JD(S)	L. T. Thimmappa Hegde	54,578	7.30
	JD(U)	Shivalinga Swami	8,834	1.18
	Independent	Bhadre Shivappa	54,578	1.17
	Janata Party	K.S.Sathyanarayana	5141	0.69
Majority			16,949
Turnout			748,351	58.21
	Samajwadi Party gain from Congress		Swing