Bangalore Central Lok Sabha Constituency of Karnataka: Full list of candidates, polling dates

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Bangalore Central Lok Sabha Constituency of Karnataka.

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Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Southern state of Karnataka. Voting here for the 2019 Lok Sabha election took place on April 18. The result will be out on May 23. 

Bangalore Central registered 54.29 per cent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a loss of 1.45 per cent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 2204431 while 1196697 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 55.74 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1930782 while 1076150 voted.

P. C. Mohan of the Bharatiya Janata Party, M. K. Pasha of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Rizwan Arshad of the Indian National Congress and Nawaz Dilber of the Karnataka Karmikara Paksha are some of the prominent names who contested the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka.

Here is the full list of candidates from Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency of Karnataka:

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	M. K. Pasha	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	P. C. Mohan	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	M. K. Pasha	Independent
4	Rizwan Arshad	Indian National Congress
5	C.J. Aditya	Independent
6	B. Krishna Prasad	Proutist Bloc, India
7	Nawaz Dilber	Karnataka Karmikara Paksha
8	Mellegatti Shridevi	Uttama Prajaakeeya Party
9	Srinivasan R	Indian Christian Front
10	Hunsur K. ChandraShekar	Democratic Prajakranthi Party Secularist
11	Arun Prasad A	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
12	A. Christhuraj	Independent
13	Kempurajan	Republican Sena
14	Jenifar J. Russell	Independent
15	Prakash Raj	Independent
16	Pradeep Mendonca	Independent
17	S. Pandurangan	Independent
18	Francis Binny Jose	Independent
19	Dr. Philip Mariyan	Independent
20	S. Mohan Kumar	Independent
21	Raparti Anil Kumar	Independent
22	C. B. K. Rama	Independent
23	Syed Asif Bukhari	Independent

Bengaluru Central constituency was created in 2008 as part of delimitation. Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency covers eight assembly segments –  Sarvagnanagar, C. V. Raman Nagar, Shivajinagar, Shanti Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Rajaji Nagar, Chamarajapet and Mahadevapura.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, P. C. Mohan of the Bharatiya Janata Party - won by a margin of over 1.37 lakh votes. He had defeated Rizwan Arshad of the Indian National Congress. Mohan had secured 557130 votes while Arshad got 419630 votes.