Mangalore South constituency has been of great importance because of its features and its contribution to various fields. It serves as the headquarters for the district and most of the developmental works are chalked out and implemented with this constituency as focal point. With Mangalore port situated in this constituency, the trade connection with outside world starts and culminates here.
BJP and Congress candidates from Mangalore South Yogish Bhat and J R Lobo exchange wishes after filing nomination papers on Monday
Background
The region fell under Madras Presidency and later when the states were reorganized on linguistic lines, Mysore state was formed which was soon named as Karnataka. In 1956 the state got its present form and in 1957 elections, this region was named 'Mangalore 1'. Vaikunt Baliga of the Congress with 19533 votes defeated his opponent Shantharam Pai of the CPI who bagged 10001 votes. Independent candidate Laura Pais and Prabhakar of Bharathiya Jana Sangha were also in the fray.
Shantharam Pai of CPI tasted defeat again in 1962 when M Srinivas Nayak of Congress won in this region. However, independent candidate Laura Pais bagging 9,588 votes was a surprising aspect. In 1967, M Srinivas Nayk from the Congress was re-elected.
In 1983 Bharathiya Janata Party set its foot into the Karnataka Assembly from this constituency for the first time. However, during the next two elections, the Congress assured its victory. In 1994 N Yogish Bhat of the BJP won in the constituency and continued the culture of victory till 2008, a romping four consecutive victories during the period.
Highlights
This constituency has 38 of the 60 wards of the Mangalore City Corporation. So far, the electoral battle has been between two national political parties- the Congress and the BJP. No other party has even made its presence felt here.
Mangalore City Corporation was formed in 1983 and since then the Congress had monopolized the region. However, the Congress was defeated in 2008 by the BJP. But, as the five year term was coming to an end, a mayoral elections was held and the ornamental post of the mayor surprisingly fell into the hands of the Congress despite the BJP being in power. During the recently held urban local body polls, the Congress managed to regain power in the MCC.
Winners
B Vaikunt Baliga (Congress)-1957
Manel Srinivas Nayak (Congress)-1962/1967
Eddie Saldanha (Congress)-1972
P F Rodrigues (Congress)-1978
V Dhananjay Kumar (BJP)-1983
Blasius M D'Souza (Congress)-1985/1989
N Yogish Bhat (BJP)- 1994/1999/2004/2008
Posts held
The winners from this constituency from time to time held prestigious posts. M Vaikunt Baliga was the Assembly Speaker. Manel Srinivas Nayak contributed to education field. P F Saldanha, M Blasius D'Souza both served as ministers. N Yogish Bhat is the deputy speaker of the Assembly. V Dhananjay Kumar who opened BJP's victory account here went on to become the MP representing Mangalore parliamentary constituency and central minister too.
Scenes from last election
In 2008 election BJP's N Yogish Bhat registered his fourth consecutive victory with a margin of 8,760 votes.
Total votes were 1,85,484 while 51 votes were considered invalid.
N Yogish Bhat received 60,133 votes while Congress candidate Ivan D'Souza bagged 51,373 votes. Yashwant Maroli of CPM bagged 4,089 votes while B Vishwanath, an independent candidate got only 595 votes followed by Dharmendra K of JDU with 514 votes.
Voters' detail
This time, there are 1,98,382 voters as against the 1,85,484 voters of 2008. There are 94,816 men (88,567 in 2008) and 1,03,566 women (96,917 in 2008).
Comments
Add new comment