Kolar Gold Field Assembly constituency

Kolar Gold Fields Assembly constituency is one of the constituencies in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Kolar Lok Sabha constituency.

Kolar Gold Fields
Constituency No. 146 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
Division	Bangalore
District	Kolar
LS constituency	Kolar
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Roopakala. M
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2018

Double Constituency:

The city of Kolar Gold Field has a clear demarcation of mining and non-mining towns. Majority of the population of the mining towns was the Adi-dravida community (Scheduled Caste/Tribes). The non-mining part comprised an admixture of many communities. The Constitution of India provides for special provisions for the upliftment of the downtrodden communities. Hence, political representation for the mining towns was reserved for SCS/STs and is still continuing as a Reserved Constituency. This arrangement automatically declares the non-mining towns as a General Constituency. K.G.F city thus became a double constituency during the earlier times in which the electorates were represented by two members. Later, owing to increase of the downtrodden community population, the entire K.G.F was given the status of a Reserved Constituency.