Bengaluru: Karnataka is set for Lok Sabha elections in two phases on April 18 and April 23. The parties have finalised candidates for the April 18 election as March 26 is the last date to file the nominations. However, respective parties are yet to announce candidates for some constituencies that would go to polls on April 23.

BJP is contesting in all 28 constituencies, whereas, Congress and the JD(S) are contesting in alliance. Actors like Sumalatha (supported by BJP) and Prakash Raj are contesting independently in Mandya and Bengaluru Central constituencies respectively.  

Constituencies that would go to polls on April 18:

Udupi - Chikkamagaluru, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumakuru, Mandya, Mysur, Chamarajanagar, Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru North, Bengaluru Central, Bengaluru South, Chikkaballapur and Kolar.

Constituencies that would go to polls on April 23:

Chikkodi, Bagalkot, Belagavi, Vijayapur, kalaburagi, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Ballari, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Shivamogga.

Here is the list of candidates's names announced by the BJP, Congress-JD(S) alliance and independents:

No

Constituency

BJP

Congress

JD(S)

Independent

1

Chikkodi

Anna Saheb Jolle

Prakash Hukkeri

 

 

2

Belagavi

Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi

Virupakshi S Sadhunnavar

 

 

3

Bagalkot

Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar

Veena Kashappanavar

 

 

4

Vijayapur

Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi

 

Dr Sunitha Chowhan

 

5

Kalaburagi

Umesh Jadhav

Mallikarjuna Kharge

 

 

6

Raichur

Raja Amresh Nayak

BV Nayak

 

 

7

Bidar

Bhagwanth Khuba

Eshwar Khandre

 

 

8

Bellary

Devendrappa

VS Ugrappa

 

 

9

Koppal

Sanganna Karadi

Rajashekhar Hitnal

 

 

10

Haveri

Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi

DR Patil

 

 

11

Dharwad

Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi

Vinay Kulkarni

 

 

12

Uttara Kannada

Anant Kumar Hegde

 

Anand Asnotikar 

 

13

Davanagere

Gowdar M Siddeshwara

Shamanur Shivashankarappa

 

 

14

Shivamogga

B Y Raghavendra

 

Madhu Bangarappa

 

15

Udupi-Chikkamagalur

Shobha Karandlaje

  

Pramod Madhwaraj 

 

16

Hassan

A Manju

 

Prajwal Revanna

 

17

Dakshina Kannada

Nalin Kumar Kateel

Mithun Rai

 

 

18

Chitradurga

A Narayana Swamy

BN Chandrappa

 

 

19

Tumakuru

G S Basavaraju

 

Deve Gowda

 

20

Mandya

 

 

Nikhil Gowda

Sumalatha Ambareesh (BJP supported)

21

Mysuru-Kodagu

Prathap Simha

CH Vijayshankar

 

 

22

Chamarajanagar

Srinivasa Prasad

R Dhruva Narayana

 

 

23

Bengaluru Rural

Ashwat Narain

DK Suresh

 

 

24

Bengaluru  North

DV Sadananda Gowda

Krishna Byre Gowda

 

 

25

Bengaluru Central

P C Mohan

Rizwan Arshad

 

Prakash Raj

26

Bengaluru  South

Tejaswi Surya

BK Hariprasad

 

 

27

Chkkaballapur

B N Bachchegowda

M Veerappa Moily

 

 

28

Kolar

H Muniswamy

KH Muniyappa