The last day for the withdrawal of nominations for the upcoming Karnataka bypoll in 15 constituencies has ended on Thursday. JD(S) candidates for Hirekerur constituency Shivalinga Shivacharya Swamiji and Athani constituency candidate Gurudasyal withdrew their nominations today. The final list of candidates for the bypolls from Congress, BJP and JD(S) party is as follows: Yellapur Bhimanna Naik- Indian National Congress Chaitra Gowda A- Janata Dal (Secular) Hebbar Shivaram- BJP Ranebennur Krishnappa Koliwad- Indian National Congress Mallikarjunappa- Janata Dal (Secular) Arunkumar Guttur - BJP Vijayanagara Venkatrao Ghorpade - INC NM Nabi -JD(S) Anand Singh - BJP Yesvantpur ST Somashekar- BJP P Nagaraj -INC TN Javarayigowda- JDS Mahalakshmi Layout K. Gopalaiah- BJP DR. Girish K Nashi-JDS M. Shivaraju-INC Vatal Nagraj- Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha Chikkaballapura K Sudhakar-BJP M Anjanappa-Congress Radhakrishna N-JDS KR Puram M Narayanaswamy-Congress C Krishna Murthy-JDS Byrati Basavaraj-BJP Shivajinagar Rizwan Arshad- Congress Saravana-BJP Tanveer Ahmed-JDS KR Pete KB Chandrashekar- Congress Devaraj BL-JDS KC Narayana Gowda- BJP Hunsur AH Vishwanath- BJP Somashekar- JDS H P Manjunath-Congress Athani Gananan Balachandra Mangasuli -Congress Mahesh Kumatalli- BJP Kagwad Bharamgouda Alagouda Kage -Congress Shrimanthagouda Patil- BJP Shila Parasapa Tuga Shetty -JDS Gokak Lakhan Jarkiholi -Congress Ramesh Jarkiholi- BJP Ashok Pojari-JDS Hirekerur BC Patil- BJP B H Bannikod-Congress Hoskote MTB Nagraj- BJP Padmavathi Suresh-Congress A total of 165 candidates are in the fray for December 5 by-polls to 15 assembly constituencies in Karnataka, poll officials said on Thursday. Among 165 contesting candidates, 156 are men and 9 women. While Shivajinagar with 19 has the highest number of candidates in the fray, followed by Hoskote with 17; least number of candidates 7 each are in K R Pete and Yellapura. Fifty-three out of total 218 validly nominated candidates have withdrawn their nominations till Thursday, the last day to do so, with highest number of 11 withdrawals in Hunsur constituency. with PTI inputs
