K. R. Pura Assembly constituency

K. R. Puram or Krishnarajapuram is an Assembly constituency in the Greater Bangalore region and has the largest number of voters among the 21 constituencies. It comes under Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency. Carved out from the erstwhile Varthur Assembly constituency, and a few parts of Hosakote Assembly constituency, it has predominantly urban characteristics.

K. R. Pura
Constituency No. 151 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Location of K. R. Puram Assembly constituency, shown in red, in Bangalore
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Bangalore Urban
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangalore North
Established	2008
Total electors	510,777 (2023)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Byrati Basavaraj
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	N. S. Nandiesha Reddy

K. R. Pura constituency

Ward map

All wards of the erstwhile K. R. Pura City Municipal Council, and wards 3 to 11 of Mahadevapura City Municipal Council, which includes Sanna Thammanahalli, Medahalli, Bhattrahalli, K. R. Pura, Ramamurthy Nagar, Doorvaninagar, Chikkabasavanapura, Devasandra, Vijnanapura, A. Narayanapura, Singayyanapalya, Annayyanapalya, Mahadevapura, Benniganahalli, Vibhuthipura and Vimanapura now come under K R Pura Assembly.

As many as 10 villages, K. Narayanapura, Kottanur, N. Nagenahalli, Kyalasanahalli, Geddalahalli, Horamavu Agara, K. Channasandra, Kalkere, Horamavu and Chalkere, that were included within the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits when the Greater Bangalore area was formed, are also part of this constituency.^[2]

The area has its own set of problems. Traffic congestion, sewage disposal issues, lack of storm-water drains and bad roads are common complaints.^[3]

Following are the Wards which come under K. R. Pura Assembly constituency:

Horamavu

Rama-

murthy

Nagar

Vijnana
pura

K R Pura

Devasandra

A.Narayanapura

Basavana
pura

Vijnana Nagar

HAL Airport

K R Pura

Ward No.	Ward Name	Corporator[4]
25	Horamavu[5]	Radhamma[6]
26	Ramamurthy Nagar[7]	Padmavathi S.[8]
51	Vijnanapura[9]	S Raju[10]
52	K. R. Pura[11]	K Poornima[12]
53	Basavanpura[13]	B N Jayaprakash[14]
55	Devasandra[15]	M N Srikanth[16]
56	A. Narayanapura[17]	V Suresh[18]
81	Vignana Nagar[15]	S G Nagaraj[19]
87	HAL Airport[17]	N Manjunath[20]

Civic Administration

K R Pura comes under Bangalore North (Lok Sabha constituency) led by MP D. V. Sadananda Gowda who was also the ex Chief Minister of Karnataka. During the general elections 2014 D. V. Sadananda Gowda contesting through BJP won with 52.91% majority defeating C. Narayanaswamy of INC. MLA Byrati Basavaraj won contesting through INC the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from K R Pura by a margin of 24001 votes defeating N. S. Nandiesha Reddy of BJP.

Members of Legislative Assembly

K. R. Pura seat did not exist in the 12th Legislative assembly (2004-2008) and parts of it were inside Hosakote and Varathur Assembly constituencies. Varathur was split into two (Mahadevapura & K. R. Pura) by 2008; K. R. Pura has since participated in the 13th, 14th and 15th Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections.

K. R. Pura Assembly's history

Year	Member	Party
Before 2008: Constituency did not exist
2008	N. S. Nandiesha Reddy		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Byrati Basavaraj		Indian National Congress
2018[21][22]
2019[a]			Bharatiya Janata Party
2023[23]

1. by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: K. R. Pura^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Byrati Basavaraj	139,925	51.93	−9.50
	INC	D. K. Mohan	1,15,243	42.91	+9.34
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,396	1.63	−0.65
Majority			24,682	9.02	−18.84
Turnout			2,69,462	52.76	+6.10
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections: K. R. Pura

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Byrati Basavaraj	139,879	61.43	+21.01
	INC	M. Narayanaswamy	76,436	33.57	−19.74
	JD(S)	C. Krishnamurthy	2,048	0.90	−1.69
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,184	2.28	+1.31
Majority			63,443	27.86	+14.97
Turnout			2,27,702	46.66	−7.90
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: K. R. Pura^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Byrati Basavaraj	135,404	53.31
	BJP	N. S. Nandiesha Reddy	1,02,675	40.42
	JD(S)	D. A. Gopala	6,578	2.59
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,464	0.97
Majority			32,729	12.89
Turnout			2,53,994	54.56
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• Bangalore Urban district