# Chittapur Assembly constituency

Chittapur is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, a southern state of India. Chittapur is also part of Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly
### Hyderabad State

| Year | Name | Party | Party |
| 1952 | Rudrappa S. | | Indian National Congress |

### Mysore State

| Year | Name | Party |
| 1957 | Vijaya Devi Raghavender Rao | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Vijaya Devi Raghavender Rao | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | R. Nagappa | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Vijay Desai | Indian National Congress |

### Karnataka

| Year | Name | Party |
| 1978 | Prabhakar R. Telkar | Indian National Congress (Indira) |
| 1983 | Vishwanath Patil Hebbal | Janata Party |
| 1985 | Vishwanath Patil Hebbal | Janata Party |
| 1989 | Babu Rao Chinchansur | Indian National Congress |
| 1994 | Babu Rao Chinchansur | Indian National Congress |
| 1999 | Babu Rao Chinchansur | Indian National Congress |
| 2004 | Vishwanath Patil Hebbal | Janata Dal |
| 2008 | Mallikarjun Kharge | Indian National Congress |
| 2009 | Valmiki Nayak | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2013 | Priyank M. Kharge | Indian National Congress |
| 2018 | Priyank M. Kharge | Indian National Congress |
| 2023 | Priyank M. Kharge | Indian National Congress |
* ↑ by-election

## Election results
### 2023

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chittapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | Priyank Kharge | 81,323 | 53.08 | 3.43 |
| | BJP | Manikanta Rathod | 67,683 | 44.18 | 2.35 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 816 | 0.53 | 0.22 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 13,640 | 8.90 | 5.78 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,53,195 | 64.98 | 4.46 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | | |

### 2018

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chittapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Priyank Kharge | 69,700 | 49.65 |
| | BJP | Valmiki Naik | 65,307 | 46.53 |
| | BSP | Devaraja V K | 1,218 | 0.87 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,052 | 0.75 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 4,393 | 3.12 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,40,369 | 60.52 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | |

### 2013

2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chittapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Priyank Kharge | 69,397 | 56.08 |
| | BJP | Valmiki Naik | 38,188 | 30.87 |
| | KJP | Gurunath | 9,596 | 7.76 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 31,209 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
| | INC gain from BJP | INC gain from BJP | Swing | |

### 2009 by-election

2009 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-election: Chittapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Valmiki Naik | 48,365 | 47.72 |
| | INC | Priyank Kharge | 46,759 | 45.26 |
| | JD(S) | Basavaraj Bennur | 4,904 | 3.92 |
| | BSP | Ayyappa Ramatheertha | 1,356 | 0.92 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,606 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | |

### 2008

2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Chittapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Mallikarjun Kharge | 49,837 | 52.16 |
| | BJP | Valmiki Nayak | 32,395 | 33.90 |
| | JD(S) | Basavaraj Bennur | 6,524 | 6.83 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 17,442 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | |