BJP, the ruling party, needed to win 6 out of the 15 seats to maintain its majority.

[4] The bypolls were necessitated because 15 MLAs, from Congress and Janata Dal (S), resigned to bring down Kumaraswamy's coalition government.

But BJP did not allow Roshan Baig to join them, and he did not contest the bypoll.

From Hunsur (Hunasuru), Adagur Vishwanath had won on JD(S) ticket, defeating Manjunath of Congress.

But this time Manjunath managed to win the seat for Congress.