Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency was a former Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka state in southern India. It included eight Assembly constituencies, namely Kanakapura, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Magadi, Sathanur, Uttarahalli, Malavalli and Anekal. Out of them, Kanakapura, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Magadi and Anekal assembly segments were retained in the Bangalore Rural constituency created in 2008 as part of delimitation in Karnataka. Sathanur segment was merged between Kanakapura, Ramanagaram and Channapatna constituencies. Malavalli became a part of Mandya constituency and Uttarahalli was reformed and Uttarahalli Circle was merged with new Bangalore South Assembly Constituency. Former prime minister Deve Gowda won from this constituency in the 2002 bypoll but lost the next and last election in 2004, won by Tejashwini, before it was abolished.
The new Assembly Constituencies Bangalore South, Anekal, and Rajarajeshwarinagar became a part of Bangalore Rural along with Kunigal Assembly Constituency from Tumkur district
Members of Parliament Year MemberParty 1952 M. V. Rajasekharan 1971 C. K. Jaffer Sharief 1977M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 H. D. Kumaraswamy 1998 M. Srinivas 1999 M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy 2002^ H. D. Deve Gowda 2004 Tejashwini Sreeramesh
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Election results 2004
2002 by-election
1999
1998
1996
1991
1989
1984
1980
1977
1971
1967
See also Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency List of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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