With a whopping 4.78 lakh voters, the Rajarajeshwarinagar (R.R. Nagar) Assembly constituency is one among those in the city that has the highest number of voters.
In the last two elections (2013 and 2018), the incumbent MLA and Minister in the State cabinet, Munirathna won as a candidate from the Congress. However, in 2019, Munirathna shifted his loyalty to BJP with 16 other MLAs of Congress and JD(S), resulting in the fall of the H.D. Kumaraswamy-led JD(S) and Congress coalition government.
