During the demarcation of constituencies in 2008, this one gained some regions and lost some along with its name Ullal constituency. Christened as Mangalore constituency, it has emerged as a bigger constituency than its past form.
The newly formed Mangalore constituency lost some parts to Mangalore South because those places were urban regions. Today the Mangalore constituency has parts of Mangalore taluk, Mangalore B division, Ullal Town Panchayat, parts of Pane Mangalur, Meramajal, Kodman, Sajipanadu, Cheloor, Kurnad, Fajir, Kairangala, Naringana, Balepuni, Ira villages, Padu, Thumbe and parts of Vittal Assembly Constituency, which lost its existence during the demarcation.
History
The constituency has historic significance. During the British rule, the region came under Madras Presidency. During 1956, the region was included in the then Mysore State. It was considered as a constituency for the first time in the 1957 elections and in the first elections itself the Congress wrote victory here with GajananaRaoPandit defeating his opponent B V Kakkilaya of CPI. While Mr Pandit had bagged 20,332 votes, his opponent bagged 14,526 votes. This came as a huge landmark considering the fact that the number of voters then was 34,858.
The region was then won over by the Communist in 1962 with party's Krishna Shetty with 17,725 votes in hand defeated Congress candidate B M Idinabba. Though in 1967 the two came face to face with each other in the assembly polls, this time Idinabba trounced Mr Shetty with a romping 21,365 votes.
In 1972 assembly polls, U T Fareed of Congress won 30,048 votes defeating CPI candidate MrShetty. Bharathiya Jana Sangha candidate K Narayan Shetty had tasted defeat with meagre 6,227 votes.
In 1978 U T Fareed won again defeating CPI candidate P RamachandraRao with a margin of 17,729 votes. In 1983, CPI candidate MrRao won against MohommadMasood of the Congress.
In 1994, the BJP saw a surprising victory in this constituency with K JayaramShetty defeating MohommadMasood of the Congress and K R Shriyan of CPM.
Bypolls
In the 1999 bypolls, U T Fareed of the Congress trounced K JayaramShetty. Fareed repeated victory in 2004 as well by defeating ChandrashekarUchil of the BJP. Fareed had by this time grown immensely popular in the constituency. Unfortunately, in 2007, Fareed's death brought in a void. However, his son U T Khader worked as a defacto MLA and soon he carried forward his father's legacy. He won 46,271 votes as against 38,239 votes of ChandrashekarUchil.
In 2008, Ullal constituency became Mangalore constituency and in the elections held in 2008, Khader bagged a romping 50,718 votes against BJP's K PadmanabhaKottary.
Highlights
The most fascinating aspect of this constituency is that it happens to be the only constituency which has seen father and son as MLAs. While U T Fareed won in the constituency during 1972, 1978, 1999 and 2004. His son U T Khader won in this constituency in 2007 and 2008. This election will see MrKhader try his luck in the constituency again. In 2008 elections he won with a margin of 7,049 elections. Then the total number of voters was 1,41,838.
Four parties
The constituency has seen 13 elections so far and four parties have ruled this constituency. While the Congress won ten times, CPI, CPI (M) and BJP have won once each.
No cabinet berth yet
One disappointing fact is that Ullal-Mangalore constituency has not had cabinet representation so far. Even when one candidate won several times from this constituency, his party ruling at the State did not give a cabinet seat.
Voters' detail
This election will see 22,467 additional voters when compared to last election.
Total voters here are 1,64,305 (1,41,838 in 2008), out of which 81,069 are men (69305 in 2008) and 83,236 are women (72,533 in 2008).
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