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

Shanti Nagar assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka legislative assembly. It falls under the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency.
The seat was won by Nalapad Ahmed Haris of the Indian National Congress (INC) party in 2018 assembly polls. He beat K Vasudevamurthy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 18,205 votes.
Nalapad has been an MLA from this seat since 2008.
There are a total of 2,26,046 voters in this assembly of which 1,15,590 are males and 1,10,415 females.
Assembly elections in Karnataka will be held in a single phase on May 10 setting the stage for yet another showdown between the ruling BJP and the Congress ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the JD(S) facing its toughest challenge in the southern state.
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.