Dakshina Kannada 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 Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Constituency of Karnataka.

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Dakshina Kannada 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. Dakshina Kannada constituency was created in 2008 as part of delimitation.

Dakshina Kannada registered 77.90 per cent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gain of 0.72 per cent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1724458 while 1343439 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 77.18 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1564114 while 1207120 voted.

Supreeth Kumar Poojary of the Loktantrik Janta Dal, Vijay Shreenivas of the Uttama Prajaakeeya Party, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mohammed Eliyas of the Social Democratic Party Of India are some of the prominent names who contested the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka.

Here is the full list of candidates from Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency of Karnataka:

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	SUPREETH KUMAR POOJARY	Hindustan Janta Party
2	NALIN KUMAR KATEEL	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	MITHUN M RAI	Indian National Congress
4	S. SATHISH SALIYAN	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	MOHAMMED ELIYAS	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF INDIA
6	VIJAY SHREENIVAS .C	Uttama Prajaakeeya Party
8	ABDUL HAMEED	Independent
9	ALEXANDER	Independent
10	DEEPAK RAJESH COELHO	Independent
11	MOHAMMAD KHALID	Independent
12	MAXIM PINTO	Independent
13	VENKATESH BENDE	Independent
14	H. SURESH POOJARY	Independent

Dakshina Kannada constituency was created in 2008 as part of delimitation. Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency covers eight assembly segments – Belthangady, Moodabidri, Mangalore City North, Mangalore City South, Mangalore, Bantval, Puttur and Sullia which is reserved for members of Scheduled Castes.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the Bharatiya Janata Party – won by defeating Janardhana Poojary of the Indian National Congress. In the year 2009, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the BJP– won by defeating Janardhana Poojary of the Indian National Congress.