| Type: | LS |
| Shimoga | |
| State: | Karnataka |
| Established: | 1952 |
| Assembly Cons: | Shimoga Rural Bhadravati Shimoga Tirthahalli Shikaripura Sorab Sagar Byndoor |
| Latest Election Year: | 2019 |
| Reservation: | None |
| Mp: | B. Y. Raghavendra |
| Party: | BJP |
Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. As of 2005 it had 1,300,000 voters, of whom Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for more than 200,000; Lingayat for around 200,000; Ediga for 250,000; Banjara for 100,000; Muslim for 150,000; and Brahmins and Vokkaliga for 105,000 and others 150,000.[1]
Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency consists of eight assembly segments. These are:
| No | Name | District | Member | Party | Party Leading (in 2024) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | Shimoga Rural (SC) | Shimoga | Sharada Puryanaik | BJP | |||
| 112 | Bhadravati | B.K. Sangameshwara | BJP | ||||
| 113 | Shimoga | Channabasapa | BJP | ||||
| 114 | Tirthahalli | Araga Jnanendra | BJP | ||||
| 115 | Shikaripura | B. Y. Vijayendra | BJP | ||||
| 116 | Sorab | Madhu Bangarappa | BJP | ||||
| 117 | Sagar | Belur Gopalkrishna | BJP | ||||
| 118 | Byndoor | Udupi | Gururaj Gantihole | BJP | |||
^ denotes By poll
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | K.G. Wodeyar | ||
| 1957 | |||
| 1962 | S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao | ||
| 1967 | J. H. Patel | ||
| 1971 | T. V. Chandrashekarappa | ||
| 1977 | A. R. Badrinarayan | ||
| 1980 | S. T. Quadri | ||
| 1984 | T. V. Chandrashekarappa | ||
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | K. G. Shivappa | ||
| 1996 | S. Bangarappa | ||
| 1998 | Ayanur Manjunath | ||
| 1999 | S. Bangarappa | ||
| 2004 | |||
| 2005^ | |||
| 2009 | B. Y. Raghavendra | ||
| 2014 | B. S. Yediyurappa | ||
| 2018^ | B. Y. Raghavendra | ||
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 | |||