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

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
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