The term of office of the 25 sitting members of Karnataka Legislative Council from 20 Local Authorities’ Constituencies is going to expire on 05.01.2022 as per details given below:
KARNATAKA
| S. No. | Name of Local Authorities Constituencies | No. of seat(s) | Name of member | Date of Retirement |
| Bidar | 01 | Vijay Singh | 05.01.2022 | |
| Gulbarga | 01 | B. G. Patil | ||
| Bijapur | 02 | S.R. Patil | ||
| Sunilgouda Patil | ||||
| Belgaum | 02 | Kavatagimath Mahantesh Mallikarjun | ||
| Vivekrao Vasantrao Patil | ||||
| Uttara Kannada | 01 | Ghotnekar Shrikant Laxman | ||
| Dharwad | 02 | Pradeep Shettar | ||
| Mane Shrinivas | ||||
| Raichur | 01 | Basavaraj Patil Itagi | ||
| Bellary | 01 | K. C. Kondaiah | ||
| Chitradurga | 01 | G. Raghuachar | ||
| Shimoga | 01 | R. Prasanna Kumar | ||
| Dakshina Kannada | 02 | K. Prathapchandra Shetty | ||
| Kota Srinivasa Poojary | ||||
| Chikmagalur | 01 | Pranesh M.K. | ||
| Hassan | 01 | M.A. Gopalaswamy | ||
| Tumkur | 01 | Kanthraj (BML) | ||
| Mandya | 01 | N. Appajigowda | ||
| Bangalore | 01 | M. Narayanaswamy | ||
| Bangalore Rural | 01 | S. Ravi | ||
| Kolar | 01 | C.R. Manohar | ||
| Kodagu | 01 | Sunil Subramani M.P. | ||
| Mysore | 02 | R. Dharmasena | ||
| S. Nagaraju (Sandesh Nagaraju) |
2. Now, the Commission has decided to hold biennial election to Karnataka Legislative Council from above mentioned 20 Local Authorities’ Constituencies in accordance with the following programme:-
| S. No | Events | Dates |
| Issue of Notifications | 16th November, 2021 (Tuesday) | |
| Last date of making nominations | 23rd November, 2021 (Tuesday) | |
| Scrutiny of nominations | 24th November, 2021 (Wednesday) | |
| Last date for withdrawal of candidatures | 26th November, 2021 (Friday) | |
| Date of Poll | 10th December, 2021 (Friday) | |
| Hours of Poll | 08:00 am to 04:00 pm | |
| Counting of Votes | 14th December, 2021 (Tuesday) | |
| Date before which election shall be completed | 16th December, 2021 (Thursday) |
- Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 as already issued by ECI as well as the recent guidelines issued by ECI as contained in para 06 of Press Note dated 28.09.2021 available at link https://eci.gov.in/candidate-political-parties/instructions-on-covid-19/ to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process for all persons.
