BTM Layout Constituency Election Results: Assembly seat details, MLAs, candidates & more

BTM Layout assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka legislative assembly. It comes under the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency.
The seat was won by Ramalinga Reddy of the Congress party in 2018 assembly polls. He defeated Lallesh Reddy of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 20,478 votes. Reddy has been a sitting MLA on this seat since 2008.
BTM Layout has a total of 2,70,500 voters, of which 1,42,458 are males and 1,28,014 females and 28 are registered as Others.
Political observers feel the BJP will have to strongly counter anti-incumbency, as voters have not given any party a successive mandate in recent years. It last happened in 1985, when the Ramakrishna Hegde-led Janata Party retained power.
While Congress' vote base is spread evenly across the state, the support for the BJP is pronounced in the north and central regions and coastal Karnataka. The Veerashaiva-Lingayat community forms BJP's major vote bank. The JD(S) dominates the Vokkaliga bastion of Old Mysuru (southern Karnataka) region.
In Karnataka, Lingayats constitute about 17 per cent, Vokkaligas 15 per cent, OBCs 35 per cent, SC/STs 18 per cent, Muslims about 12.92 per cent and Brahmins about three per cent.
The BJP has set a target of winning at least 150 seats to ensure absolute majority. The party wants to avoid a 2018-like situation, when it had initially lost out on forming government despite emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats, and had to depend on defections by Congress and JD(S) MLAs to be in power later.
A total of 58,282 polling stations will be set up in the state which has an estimated 5.24 crore voters.