Karnataka Legislative Assembly

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Karnataka Legislative Assembly
15th Legislative Assembly of me the nestKarnataka
Type
Type	Lower house of Karnataka Legislature
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	1881 (1881)
New session started	11 December 2018
Leadership
Speaker	Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, BJP since 31 July 2019
Deputy Speaker	Anand Chandrashekhar Mamani, BJP since 24 March 2020
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Basavaraj Bommai, BJP
Leader of the Opposition	Siddaramaiah, INC since 9 December 2019
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Ajay Singh, INC since 12 March 2020
Chief Secretary	M.K. Vishalakshi
Structure
Seats	224
Political groups	Government (121)   BJP (120)   IND (1) Opposition (69)   INC (68)   IND (1) Opposition (32)   JD(S) (32) Vacant (2)   Vacant (2)
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.

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President's rule in the state

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][]

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

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