key candidate

The incumbent chief minister, 63, is seeking re-election from Shiggaon, from where he has been an MLA three times since the 2008 Karnataka assembly election. Bommai is contesting against Congress candidate Mohammed Yousuf Savanur. Bommai won in Shiggaon in the 2018 Karnataka assembly poll by 9,260 votes. Bommai took over as CM in July 2021 after Yediyurappa resigned. Bommai is considered a confidant of Yediyurappa and was handpicked by him to be his successor.