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Bangalore South segment has most voters

Nagesh Prabhu

Before delimitation, Uttarahalli was the largest constituency in the country

317 polling stations to be set up in Bangalore South Constituency
Only three constituencies have more than three lakh voters

BANGALORE: Bangalore South is a new Legislative Assembly constituency and it has the largest number of voters in the State. The urban constituency has 3,74,833 voters of whom 2,01,179 are men and 1,73,654 women.

Only three constituencies in the State have more than three lakh voters. They are Bangalore South (3,74,833), K.R. Puram (3,08,407) and Sarvagnanagar (3,01,796).

Kudachi constituency in Belgaum district has the least number of voters in the State. The constituency has 1,35,878 voters of whom 69,696 are men and 66, 179 are women, according to sources in the Chief Electoral Office here.

Bangalore South, which was a part of erstwhile Uttarahalli constituency, comprises parts of Bangalore South taluk, including Begur, Uttarahalli, Subramanyapura, Anjanapura, Kottanoor, Anekal taluk and wards of Pattanagere City Municipal Council. The Election authorities have decided to establish 317 polling stations in the Bangalore South constituency.

K.R. Puram is the second largest constituency in the State. The new Assembly constituency in the Greater Bangalore region has been carved out from the erstwhile Varthur Assembly constituency (which no longer exists) and a few parts of Hoskote Assembly constituency, it has predominantly urban characteristics. Sarvagnanagar, which is also the new constituency, is the third largest constituency. It comprises BBMP wards (No. 86 to 89 and 94) and Byatarayanapura (ward no 23 to 31).

Before the delimitation of constituencies, Uttarahalli was the largest constituency in the country and it had 13,03,382 voters which is more than that of many a Lok Sabha constituency. There was a saying that whoever leads in Uttarahalli will win in Kanakapura Lok Sabha seat. Uttarahalli constituency does not exist now.

From 12 constituencies in the past, now the Bangalore region comprises 28 Legislative Assembly constituencies, of which 21 fall in the BBMP electoral district, and seven in the Bangalore Urban district.

There are 31 Assembly constituencies having voters more than two lakh. They are Jewargi (2,00,935), Shorapur (2,19,377), Gulbarga Rural (2,13,498) in Gulbarga district; Bellary City (2,21,796); Chitradurga (2,06,159), Hiriyur (2,10,462) and Holalkere (2,00,613) in Chitradurga district; Rajarajeshwari Nagar (2,97,561), Mahalakshmi Layout (2,12,553), Hebbal 2,08,029), C.V. Raman Nagar (2,19,459), Gandhinagar (2,22,600), Govindarajnagar (2,40,592), Vijayanagar (2,50,229), Chamarajpet (2,14,874), Chikpet (2,08,178), Basavanagudi (2,22,013), Padmanabhanagar (2,19,767), BTM Layout (2,12,941), Bommanahalli (2,61,085) in Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) jurisdiction; Malavalli (2,09,559) and Mandya (2,05,338) in Mandya district; Chamundeshwari (2,21,136), Krishnaraja (2,01,263), Chamaraja (2,01,992) in Mysore district; and Yelahanka (2,38,831), Byatarayanapura (2,62,278), Yeshwathpur (2,62,898), Dasarahalli (2,87,211), Mahadevapura (2,73,519) and Anekal (2,37,025) in Bangalore Urban District.

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