Karnataka Legislative Assembly
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Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
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15th Legislative Assembly of me the nestKarnataka | |
Type | |
Type | Lower house of Karnataka Legislature |
Term limits | 5 years |
History | |
Founded | 1881 |
New session started | 11 December 2018 |
Leadership | |
Speaker | |
Deputy Speaker | |
Leader of the House (Chief Minister) | Basavaraj Bommai, BJP |
Deputy Leader of the Opposition | |
Chief Secretary | M.K. Vishalakshi |
Structure | |
Seats | 224 |
Political groups | Government (121)
Opposition (69)
Opposition (32)
Vacant (2)
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Elections | |
Voting system | First past the post |
Last election | 12 May 2018 |
Next election | May 2023 |
Meeting place | |
Legislative Assembly building, Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | |
Legislative Assembly building, Suvarna Vidhan Soudha, Belagavi, Karnataka, India (Winter session) | |
Website | |
Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
Footnotes | |
The Council was established in 1881 for the Princely State of Mysore. The princely state was merged with the Dominion of India and became Mysore State in 1947; Mysore State was re-organized to its current territorial state in 1956 and renamed as Karnataka on 1 November 1973. |
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Karnataka in South India. Karnataka is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses are the Vidhan Sabha (lower house) and the Vidhan Parishad (upper house).
The members of the Vidhana Sabhe are directly elected by people through adult franchise.
There are 224 members of the Vidhana Sabhe or the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka state. The state of Karnataka is divided into 224 constituencies used to elect the Legislative assembly members.
Each constituency elects one member of the assembly. Members are popularly known as MLAs. The assembly is elected using the simple plurality or "first past the post" electoral system. The elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India.
The normal term of the members lasts for five years. In case of death, resignation or disqualification of a member, a by-election is conducted for constituency represented by the member. The party, or coalition which has the majority becomes the ruling party.
List of assemblies[]
Assembly | Period | Chief Minister(s) |
First Assembly | 18 June 1952 – 31 March 1957 | K. C. Reddy, Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Kadidal Manjappa, S. Nijalingappa |
Second Assembly | 10 June 1957 – 1 March 1962 | S. Nijalingappa, B.D. Jatti |
Third Assembly | 15 March 1962 – 28 February 1967 | S. R. Kanthi, S. Nijalingappa |
Fourth Assembly | 15 March 1967 – 14 April 1971 | S. Nijalingappa, Veerendra Patil |
Fifth Assembly | 24 March 1972 – 31 December 1977 (Dissolved) | D. Devaraj Urs |
Sixth Assembly | 17 March 1978 – 8 June 1983 (Dissolved) | D. Devaraj Urs, R. Gundu Rao |
Seventh Assembly | 24 July 1983 – 2 January 1985 (Dissolved) | Ramakrishna Hegde |
Eighth Assembly | 18 March 1985 – 21 April 1989 (Dissolved) | Ramakrishna Hegde, S. R. Bommai |
Ninth Assembly | 18 December 1989 – 20 September 1994 (Dissolved) | Veerendra Patil, S.Bangarappa, M. Veerappa Moily |
Tenth Assembly | 25 December 1994 – 22 July 1999 (Dissolved) | H.D. Deve Gowda, J. H. Patel |
Eleventh Assembly | 25 October 1999 – 28 May 2004 | S. M. Krishna |
Twelfth Assembly | 28 May 2004 – 19 November 2007 (Dissolved) | Dharam Singh, H. D. Kumaraswamy, B. S. Yeddyurappa |
Thirteenth Assembly | 30 May 2008 – 5 May 2013 | B. S. Yeddyurappa, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Jagadish Shettar |
Fourteenth Assembly | 13 May 2013 – 15 May 2018 | Siddaramaiah |
Fifteenth Assembly | 16 May 2018 – Present | B.S. Yeddyurappa, H. D. Kumaraswamy, B. S. Yeddyurappa, Basavaraj Bommai |
President's rule in the state
Period | Assembly |
19.03.1971 to 20.03.1972 | Fourth Assembly |
31.12.1977 to 28.02.1978 | Fifth Assembly |
21.04.1989 to 30.11.1989 | Eighth Assembly |
09.10.2007 to 11.11.2007 | Twelfth Assembly |
20.11.2007 to 29.05.2008 | Twelfth Assembly |
At 11:00 am on 18 June 1952, Wednesday, the first session of the legislative assembly was held at the old public office building conference hall (the present high court building) in Bangalore.
On 16 December 1949 the maharaja of Mysore dissolved the representative assembly and the legislative assembly. The constituent assembly which was constituted in 1947 became the provisional assembly of Mysore until the elections were held in 1952.
The first assembly formed under the Constitution had 99 elected and one nominated member. In the first sitting of the state assembly, V. Venkatappa was the honorary speaker who administered oath to the members including the then Chief Minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah. He conducted election to the post of speaker, which was contested by socialist leader Shantaveri Gopalagowda, and H. Siddaiah, where H. Siddaiah secured 74 votes and emerged victorious and the first CM of Karnataka state Kengal Hanumanthaiah delivered the speech.
With the formation of Andhra state in 1953, parts of Bellary district from Madras State were added to Mysore state and the strength of the Assembly increased by five members. After the re-organisation of state of Mysore came into being on 1 November 1956 with four districts from the former Bombay state, three districts of Hyderabad state, a district and a taluk of the old Madras state of Coorg and the princely state of Mysore. The state was renamed as Karnataka in 1973.
The first sitting of the new assembly was held on 19 December 1956 in the newly built Vidhana Soudha. The strength of the assembly, which was 208 in 1957 increased to 216 in 1967 and to 224 plus a nominated member in 1978.
The lone women Speaker of Karnataka assembly was K. S. Nagaratnamma from 24 March 1972 to 3 March 1978.
The Budget Session and The Monsoon Session of the Legislature are held in Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru. The Winter Session of the Legislature is held in Suvarna Soudha, Belagavi.
List of speakers[]
Leader of Oppostion[1][]
Sl. No. | Name | Tenure | Assembly | Party | |||
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1 | S. Shivappa | 22 March 1962 | 28 January 1967 | 8 years, 229 days | Third Assembly
(1962- 67) |
Praja Socialist Party | |
15 March 1967 | 22 February 1970 | Fourth Assembly
(1967-71) | |||||
23 February 1970 | 22 December 1970 | Samyukta Vidhayak Dal | |||||
2 | H. Siddaveerappa | 23 December 1970 | 14 April 1971 | 112 days | Indian National Congress (R) | ||
3 | H. D. Deve Gowda | 24 March 1972 | 17 March 1976 | 3 years, 359 days | Fifth Assembly
(1972 - 77) |
Indian National Congress (Organisation) | |
4 | H. T. Krishnappa | 18 March 1976 | 25 October 1976 | 221 days | |||
(3) | H. D. Deve Gowda | 18 November 1976 | 31 December 1977 | 1 year, 43 days | |||
5 | S. R. Bommai | 18 March 1978 | 17 July 1979 | 1 year, 121 days | Sixth Assembly
(1978 - 83) |
Janata Party | |
6 | R. Gundu Rao | 17 December 1979 | 22 January 1980 | 36 days | Indian National Congress (Indira) | ||
7 | D. Devaraj Urs | 23 January 1980 | 11 June 1981 | 1 year, 139 days | Indian National Congress (U) | ||
8 | A. Lakshmisagar | 10 February 1982 | 8 January 1983 | 332 days | Janata Party | ||
9 | Veerappa Moily | 24 January 1983 | 2 January 1985 | 1 year, 344 days | Seventh Assembly
(1983 - 85) |
Indian National Congress (Indira) | |
10 | Sarekoppa Bangarappa | 18 March 1985 | 11 June 1986 | 1 year, 85 days | Eighth Assembly
(1985 - 89) | ||
11 | K. S. Nagarathanamma | 29 January 1987 | 21 April 1989 | 2 years, 82 days | |||
12 | D. B. Chandregowda | 18 December 1989 | 17 August 1992 | 2 years, 243 days | Ninth Assembly
(1989 - 94) |
Janata Dal | |
13 | R. V. Deshpande | 18 August 1992 | 16 December 1994 | 2 years, 120 days | |||
14 | B. S. Yediyurappa | 27 December 1994 | 18 December 1996 | 1 year, 357 days | Tenth Assembly
(1994 - 99) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
15 | Mallikarjun Kharge | 19 December 1996 | 7 July 1999 | 2 years, 200 days | Indian National Congress | ||
16 | Jagadish Shettar | 26 October 1999 | 23 February 2004 | 4 years, 120 days | Eleventh Assembly
(1999 - 04) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
(14) | B. S. Yediyurappa | 9 June 2004 | 2 February 2006 | 1 year, 238 days | Twelfth Assembly
(2004 - 07) | ||
17 | Dharam Singh | 8 February 2006 | 28 November 2007 | 1 year, 293 days | Indian National Congress | ||
(15) | Mallikarjun Kharge | 5 June 2008 | 28 May 2009 | 357 days | Thirteenth Assembly
(2008 - 13) | ||
18 | Siddaramaiah | 8 June 2009 | 12 May 2013 | 3 years, 338 days | |||
19 | H. D. Kumaraswamy | 31 May 2013 | 22 January 2014 | 236 days | Fourteenth Assembly
(2013 - 18) |
Janata Dal (Secular) | |
(16) | Jagadish Shettar | 23 January 2014 | 17 May 2018 | 4 years, 114 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
(14) | B. S. Yediyurappa | 25 May 2018 | 26 July 2019 | 1 year, 62 days | Fifteenth Assembly
(2018 - 23) | ||
(18) | Siddaramaiah | 10 October 2019 | Incumbent | 1 year, 334 days | Indian National Congress |
Members[]
Chief Ministers[]
Council of Ministers[]
See also[]
- Vidhana Soudha
- Government of Karnataka
- Karnataka Legislative Council
- List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka
- List of Speakers of the Karnataka Legislature
References[]
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