The Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Karnataka. He is elected by the members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly (until 1973, the Mysore Legislative Assembly). The speaker is usually a member of the Legislative Assembly.

Mysore State

Mysore State

Mysore State

The Kingdom of Mysore was one of the three largest princely states within the erstwhile British Empire of India. Upon India gaining its independence in 1947, the Maharaja of Mysore merged his realm with the Union of India...

, precursor to the present day state of Karnataka, was created after Indian independence

Indian independence movement

The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...

 on 26 January 1950

Sl. No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Term
1	V.Venkatappa	1952	1952	1
2	H.Siddaiah	June 18, 1952	May 14, 1954	1
3	H.S.Rudrappa	October 10, 1954	November 1, 1956	1
4	S.R.Kanti	December 19, 1956	March 9, 1962	1
5	B.Vaikunta Baliga	March 15, 1962	June 6, 1968	2
6	S.D.Kotavale	September 5, 1968	March 24, 1972	1
7	K.S.Nagarathnamma	March 24, 1972	March 3, 1978	1

Karnataka

Mysore was renamed to Karnataka on 1 November 1973.

Sl. No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Term
1	K.S.Nagarathnamma	March 24, 1972	March 3, 1978	1
2	P.Venkataramana	March 3, 1978	October 3, 1980	1
3	K.H.Ranganath	January 30, 1981	January 24, 1983	1
4	D.B.Chandre Gowda	January 24, 1983	March 17, 1985	1
5	B.G.Banakar	March 18, 1985	December 17, 1989	1
6	S. M. Krishna S. M. Krishna Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna , generally referred to as S. M. Krishna, is the Minister of External Affairs and a member of the Indian Parliament from Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha. He was the Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to...	December 18, 1989	January 20, 1993	1
7	V.S.Koujalagi	February 15, 1993	December 26, 1994	1
8	Ramesh Kumar	December 27, 1994	October 24, 1999	1
9	M.V.Venkatappa	October 26, 1999	June 7, 2004	1
10	Krishna	June 10, 2004	June 4, 2008	1
11	Jagadish Shettar	June 5, 2008	November 16, 2009	1
12	K.G. Bopaiah K.G. Bopaiah K. G. Bopaiah is current speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. He was elected speaker on 30 December 2009. He was earlier a deputy speaker. He is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was born in 1955 in Kodagu District....	November 17, 2009	Incumbent Incumbent The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W...

External links

• Speaker's list on onlinebangalore.com