General Elections 2009 – Karnataka
| Karnataka | Poll Date: 23rd April – 30th April | Total Constituencies: 28 |
Karnataka, one of the prominent state in south is rich with culture & technology. The state covers an area of 74,122 sq mi (191,976 km²), or 5.83% of the total geographical area of India. It is the eighth largest Indian state by area, the ninth largest by population and comprises 29 districts. Kannada is the official and most widely spoken language. Leading the country as an example with its enormous IT resources it is one of the top revenue generating states for India. Most of the population in the urban part of the state are migrants basically because of the employment opportunity the state has give in almost all sectors.The state’s capital Bangalore is also the IT capital of the country. Karnataka is also one of the tourist attraction with its western ghats & beaches.
This cultural & beautiful state would go on polls on 23rd & 30th April in two phases as below:
| Phase 1 – 23rd April | |||
| Bijapur (SC) | Gulbarga (SC) | Raichur (ST) | Tumkur |
| Bellary (ST) | Bangalore Rural | Bangalore North | Bangalore Central |
| Bangalore South | Chikkballapur | Chikkodi | Belgaum |
| Bidar | Koppal | Uttara Kannada | Chitradurga (SC) |
| Kolar (SC) | |||
| Phase 2 – 30th April | |||
| Bagalkot | Haveri | Dharwad | Davanagere |
| Shimoga | Udupi | Chikamagalur | Hassan |
| Mandya | Mysore | Chamarajanagar (SC) | Dakshina Kannada |
Constituencies & their Candidates :
| Bagalkot | |
| P C Gaddigoudar | BJP |
| G.t. Patil | INC |
| Bangalore Central | |
| Vijaya Bhaskar | BSP |
| P C Mohan | BJP |
| H.t. Sangliana | INC |
| B.z. Zameer Ahmed Khan | JD(S) |
| Bangalore North | |
| Surendra Babu | JD(S) |
| C.K.Jaffer Sharief | INS |
| Bangalore Rural | |
| Tejasvini Ramesh | INS |
| H.d. Kumaraswamy | JD(S) |
| Mohammed Hafizulla Sharief | BSP |
| Bangalore South | |
| Naheeda Salma | BSP |
| Ananth Kumar | BJP |
| Radhakrishna | JD(S) |
| Krishna Byre Gowda | INS |
| Capt G R Gopinath | IND |
| Naheeda Salma | BSP |
| Belgaum | |
| Suresh Angadi | BJP |
| R S Patil | BSP |
| Amar Singh Patil | INS |
| Bellary | |
| J Shanthi | BJP |
| T Nagendra | BSP |
| Justice N.y. Hanumanatappa | INC |
| Bidar | |
| Rambhau Jadhav | NCP |
| Jagannath Jamadar | BSP |
| Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli | BJP |
| Dharam Singh | INC |
| Subhash Nelgi | JD(S) |
| Bijapur | |
| Ramesh Jigajinagi | BJP |
| Balram Naik | NCP |
| Prakash Rathod | INC |
| Sudhakar Panamanian | BSP |
| Chamrajnagar | |
| Dhruva Narayan | INC |
| A.r. Krishna Murthy | BJP |
| N. Mahesh | BSP |
| Chikkballapur | |
| Laxminarayan | BSP |
| Manohar | JD(S) |
| M Verappa Moily | INC |
| Laxminarayan | BSP |
| Chikkodi | |
| Ramesh Katti | BJP |
| Prakash Hukkeri | INC |
| Chitradurga | |
| Janardhana Swamy | BJP |
| M. Jayanna | BSP |
| Dr. Thitteswamy | INC |
| Ratnakar Babu | JD(S) |
| M. Jayanna | BSP |
| Dakshina Kannada | |
| B Madhava | CPI(M) |
| Janardhan Poojary | INC |
| Girish Rai | BSP |
| Davanagere | |
| G M Siddeshwar | BJP |
| S.s. Mallikharjun | INC |
| Dharwad | |
| Allabaksh Killedar | NCP |
| Prahlad Joshi | BJP |
| Manjunath Kunoor | INC |
| Gulbarga | |
| Mahadev B Dhani | BSP |
| Revu Nayak Belamagi | BJP |
| Mallikarjuna Kharge | INC |
| Babu Honna Naik | JD(S) |
| Hassan | |
| K H Hanume Gowda | BJP |
| A P Ahmed | BSP |
| G. Shivram | INC |
| H.d. Deve Gowda | JD(S) |
| Haveri | |
| Ashok M Javali | NCP |
| Shivakumar Chennabasapa Udasi | BJP |
| Salim Ahmed | INC |
| Basavanthappa Gonnemmanavar | BSP |
| Kolar | |
| D S Veeraiah | BJP |
| N. Muniswamy | BSP |
| K.h. Muniyappa | INC |
| G. Chandranna | JD(S) |
| Lakshmi Shanmugham | NCP |
| Koppal | |
| Shivaputrappa Gumageri | BSP |
| Shivram Gouda | BJP |
| Basavaraja Raya Reddy | INC |
| Iqbal Ansari | JD(S) |
| Mandya | |
| Krishnamurthy | BSP |
| N. Cheluvarayaswamy | JD(S) |
| Mysore | |
| C H Vijaya Shanker | BJP |
| Syed Nizam Ali | BSP |
| H. Vishwanath | INC |
| B.a. Jivijaya | JD(S) |
| Raichur | |
| Raja Amareshwara Nayak | BJP |
| Rajavenkatapa Naik | INC |
| Shivakumar Naik Korvi | BSP |
| Shimoga | |
| B Y Raghavendra | BJP |
| J. Jayappa | BSP |
| Tumkur | |
| G S Basavaraj | BJP |
| Girish Rai | BSP |
| P. Kodandaramaiah | INC |
| Mudda Hanume Gowda | JD(S) |
| Ashok | BSP |
| Udupi Chikamagalure | |
| D V Sadananda Gowda | BJP |
| Steven J Menezes | BSP |
| S L Radha Sundresh | CPI |
| Jayaprakash Hedge | INC |
| Uttara Kannada | |
| Ananth Kumar Hedge | BJP |
| V.d. Hegde | JD(S) |
| Margaret Alva | INC |
