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

Jayanagar 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 Sowmya Reddy of the Congress party in 2018 assembly polls. He defeated B N Prahlad of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 2,889 votes.
Jayanagar has a total of 2,03,184 voters, of which 1,02,668 are males and 1,00,516 females and 16 are registered as Others.
The elections to the 224-member Karnataka assembly will be held on May 10 and results will be declared on May 13. A total of 58,282 polling stations will be set up in the state which has an estimated 5.24 crore voters.
The BJP hopes to buck a nearly four-decade-old trend to retain power and script history while the Congress will seek to upstage its saffron rival to up its stakes as a key challenger.
In the outgoing 224-member assembly, the BJP currently has 119 seats, followed by the Congress with 75 and the JD (S) with 28 seats. Two seats are vacant.
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.