151. KR Pura (General) (ಕೆ. ಆರ್. ಪುರಂ) , also known as Krishnarajapura or KR Puram, is a State Assembly/Vidhana Soudhaconstituency in the Bengaluru Urban district and Bengaluru region of Karnataka (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ) and is a part of the Bangalore North Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency. Congress (INC) won the seat in the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections.
INC won this seat in the 2013 Karnataka Assembly Elections with a margin of 24,001 votes (11.99%) securing 53.1% of the total votes polled.
BJP won this seat in the 2008 Assembly Elections with a margin of 8,792 votes (6.46%) registering 48.73% of the votes polled.
Bye-elections for 15 of the 17 vacant seats in the Karnataka Assembly were held on December 5, 2019 and the votes are being counted on December 8, 2019. These by-polls are important for the state as the results will decide if the ruling BJP under Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa is able to secure a majority in the 224-member house. BJP which has 105 MLAs, needs 8 more to secure a majority on its own.
2019 bypoll candidates: C Krishnamurthy (Janata Dal (Secular)), M Narayanaswamy (Indian National Congress), B A Basavaraja (Bharatiya Janata Party), Kemparaju N (Raita Bharat Party), Jagadeesha Kagepura (Karnataka Rashtra Samithi), Venugopala (Yuva Karnataka Paksha), Santhosh M (Uttama Prajaakeeya Party), Krishnamurthy V (Independent), TK Dasar Gowda (Independent), Chaluvali Rajanna (Independent), L Rama Krishna (Independent), Stanley Prasanna J (Independent), Suryakanth Subramanyam (Independent).
The constituencies which have gone for bypolls are: Athani, Kagwad, Gokak, Yellapur, Hirekerur, Ranibennur, Vijayanagara, Chikkaballapur, KR Pura, Yeshvanthapura, Mahalakshmi Layout, Shivaji Nagar, Hosakote, Krishnarajapete, and Hunasuru.
11 of the 15 constituencies going to the polls were won by Congress (INC) in the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections, 3 by Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS), and 1 by Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party (KPJP).
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