Bhagamandala Nad Assembly constituency

Bhagamandala Nad was a constituency of the Mysore Legislative Assembly (part of Coorg Legislative Assembly till 31 October 1956). Lone election to this Constituency was conducted in 1952 to the legislature of the Coorg State (Kodagu) in India.^[1] The constituency included Bhagamandala. This seat was included to Mysore Legislative Assembly in 1956 during the reorganisation of the Indian States based along linguistic lines, the state of Coorg (Kodagu) was merged with Mysore State.^[2] The economy of the area was dominated by export of honey and cardamom.^[3] The constituency was abolished in 1956 (on paper) and remained operation till 1957.

Bhagamandala Nad
Former constituency for the State Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Mysore State (Coorg State till 31 October 1956)
Established	1951
Abolished	1957
Reservation	None

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1952[4]	Konana Deviah		Indian National Congress
1957 onwards: Seat does not exist. See Madikeri

Election results

1952

1952 Coorg Legislative Assembly election: Bhagamandala Nad^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Konana Deviah	2,347	58.62	New
	Independent	Pattamada Ponnappa	1,384	34.57	New
	Independent	Jayaram Singh	273	6.82	New
Turnout			4,004	80.50	New
Registered electors			4,974
	INC win (new seat)

With an electoral participation of 80.5% Bhagamandala Nad had one of the highest voter turnouts in the 1952 assembly elections in India.^[5]