Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency

Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency was one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. With the implementation of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002, this constituency ceased to exist.

Assembly segments

After the delimitation (2008), Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency replaced the Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency. As of 2019 Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments:[1]

  1. Mangalore North
  2. Mangalore South
  3. Mangalore (Ullal)
  4. Sullia
  5. Puttur
  6. Bantwal
  7. Mudabidre
  8. Belthangady

Arrangement in 1950s

Mangalore Lok Sabha Constituency was a part of South Kanara (South) Lok Sabha constituency of Madras State. That seat came into existence in 1951 when South Kanara District (comprising present Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka and Kasargod, Kanhangad Taluks of Kerala). With the implementation of States Reorganisation Act, 1956, it ceased to exist.

South Kanara (South) Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following six Legislative Assembly segments:[2] 1) Panamangalore (Panemangalore), 2) Mangalore, 3) Kasargod, 4) Hosdurg (Kanhangad), 5 and 6) Two Puttur seats

After South Kanara District of erstwhile Madras State got merged with Mysore State in 1956, South Kanara (South) Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist and was replaced by Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency. The Parts of Kasargod and Hosdurg (Kanhangad) were merged with Kerala and became a part of Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Parliament
Year Member Party
1952: See South Canara (South)
1957 K. R. Achar Indian National Congress
1962 A. Shanker Alva
1967 C. M. Poonacha
1971 K. K. Shetty
1977 Janardhana Poojary
1980
1984
1989
1991 V. Dhananjay Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
1998
1999
2004 Sadananda Gowda
2008 onwards : See Dakshina Kannada

Election results
2004 Indian general election: Mangalore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP D. V. Sadananda Gowda 3,84,760 48.60 -0.53
INC M. Veerappa Moily 3,51,345 44.38 -3.57
JD(S) A. K. Subbaiah 3 5.02 +2.10
Kannada Nadu Party Rohit Kumar Joshi 15,693 1.98 +1.98
Majority 33,415 4.22 +3.04
Turnout 7,91,572 71.86 +0.08
BJP hold Swing -0.53

See also

References
  1. "Statistical Report on General elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha, Volume III" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 401. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  2. "Statistical Report on Madras elections, 1951 to the 1st Assembly" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. pp. 289–292, 294–295. Retrieved 18 October 2017.

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