Election FAQ: The list of candidates from Karnataka

The BJP, Congress and JD(S) are all set for the battle of Karnataka in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. The state goes into polls on two dates, April 18 and April 23, as part of the seven-phase polls as announced by the Election Commission of India.

Here's a list of current candidates in each of the constituencies of Karnataka, and who has been nominated for each of them in the polls. The biggest fights to look out for in the state are:

1. Mandya, where independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh is going up against JD(S)' Nikhil Kumaraswamy

2. Bangalore North, where the BJP is fielding D V Sadananda Gowda against the Congress' Krishna Byre Gowda

3. Bangalore South, where the BJP is fielding Tejasvi Surya against the Congress' B K Hariprasad

4. Bangalore Central, which will see a three-way fight between the BJP's P C Mohan, Congress' Rizwan Arshad and Prakash Raj, who is contesting as an independent.

When you go out to vote, bear in mind that you are not voting for the next PM of the country, but just the person who will put them there: your MP.

Constituency	Current MP	Polling Date	BJP+ Candidate	Cong-JD(S)+ Candidate
Udupi-Chikmagalur	Shobha Karandlaje (BJP)	April 18	Shobha Karandlaje	Pramod Madhwaraj (Congress)
Hassan	H D Deve Gowda JD(S)	April 18	A Manju	Prajwal Revanna - JD(S)
Dakshina Kannada	Nalin Kumar Kateel (BJP)	April 18	Nalin Kumar Kateel	Mithun Rai (Congress)
Chitradurga (SC)	B N Chandrappa (Congress)	April 18	A Narayana Swamy	B N Chandrappa (Congress)
Tumkur	S P Muddahanumegowda (Congress)	April 18	G S Basavaraju	H D Deve Gowda JD(S)
Mandya	L R Shivarame Gowda - JD(S)	April 18	Sumalatha Ambareesh (Ind)	Nikhil Kumaraswamy JD(S)
Mysore	Pratap Simha (BJP)	April 18	Prathap Simha	Vijayshankar (Congress)
Chamarajanagar (SC)	R Dhruvanarayana (Congress)	April 18	Srinivasa Prasad	R Dhruva Narayana (Congress)
Bangalore Rural	D K Suresh (Congress)	April 18	Ashwat Narain	D K Suresh (Congress)
Bangalore North	D V Sadananda Gowda (BJP)	April 18	D V Sadananda Gowda	Krishna Byre Gowda (Congress)
Bangalore Central	P C Mohan (BJP)	April 18	P C Mohan	Rizwan Arshad (Congress) / Prakash Raj (Ind)
Bangalore South	Ananth Kumar (BJP) (Deceased) Vacant	April 18	Tejaswi Surya LS	B K Hariprasad (Congress)
Chikkballapur	Veerappa Moily (Congress)	April 18	B N Bachchegowda	Dr M Veerappa Moily (Congress)
Kolar (SC)	K H Muniyappa (Congress)	April 18	S Muniswamy	K H Muniyappa (Congress)
Chikkodi	Prakash Babanna Hukkeri (Congress)	April 23	Anna Saheb Jolle	Prakash Hukkeri (Congress)
Belgaum	Suresh Angadi (BJP)	April 23	Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi	Virupakshi S Sadhunnavar (Congress)
Bagalkot	P C Gaddigoudar (BJP)	April 23	Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar	Veena Kashappanavar (Congress)
Bijapur (SC)	Ramesh Jigajinagi (BJP)	April 23	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Sunitha Devanand Chavan JD(S)
Gulbarga (SC)	Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress)	April 23	Dr Umesh Jadhav	Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress)
Raichur (ST)	B V Nayak (Congress)	April 23	Raja Amresh Nayak	B V Nayak (Congress)
Bidar	Bhagwanth Khuba (BJP)	April 23	Bhagwanth Khuba	Eshwar Khandre B (Congress)
Koppal	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa (BJP)	April 23	Sanganna Karadi	Rajashekhar Hitnal (Congress)
Bellary (ST)	V S Ugrappa (Congress)	April 23	Devendrappa	U S Ugrappa (Congress)
Haveri	Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi (BJP)	April 23	Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi	D R Patil (Congress)
Dharwad	Pralhad Joshi (BJP)	April 23	Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi	Vinay Kulkarni (Congress)
Uttara Kannada	Ananthkumar Hegde (BJP)	April 23	Anantkumar Hegde	Anand Asnotikar JD(S)
Davanagere	G M Siddeshwara (BJP)	April 23	Gowdar M Siddeshwara	H B Manjappa (Congress)
Shimoga	B Y Raghavendra (BJP)	April 23	B Y Raghavendra	Madhu Bangarappa JD(S)