List of leaders of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council

Template:Infobox political post The leader of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council is an elected Member of Karnataka Legislative Council who leads the official opposition in the upper house of the Karnataka Legislature. The leader of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council is the Legislature chairperson of the party with the most seats after the government party.

Leaders of opposition

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Party
Mysore
1		G. V. Anjanappa	Bangalore Graduate	28 January 1969	11 June 1970	Template:Ayd	Praja Socialist Party	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
2		A. H. Shivananda Swamy	elected by MLAs	25 September 1970	14 March 1971	Template:Ayd
3		Balakrishna Gowda	elected by MLAs	15 March 1971	15 August 1972	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress (R)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
4		Ramakrishna Hegde	elected by MLAs	16 August 1972	31 October 1973	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress (O)	rowspan="1" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
Karanataka
(4)		Ramakrishna Hegde	elected by MLAs	1 November 1973	1 February 1976	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress (O)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
5		S. R. Bommai	Dharwad Local Authorities	3 February 1976	17 March 1978	Template:Ayd
6		A.K.Subbaiah		18 March 1978	23 January 1980	Template:Ayd	Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
7		D. B. Chandregowda	elected by MLAs	24 January 1980	24 June 1981	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress (U)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				27 June 1981	16 July 1981
8		M. C. Perumal	elected by MLAs	15 February 1982	29 July 1982	Template:Ayd	Indian Congress (S)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				30 July 1982	11 January 1983
9		T. N. Narasimha Murthy	elected by MLAs	30 June 1983	28 July 1986	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress (I)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				29 July 1986	20 June 1989
10		M.C. Nanaiah	elected by MLAs	18 December 1989	13 May 1992	Template:Ayd	Janata Dal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				14 May 1992	10 December 1994
11		H. K. Patil	West Graduates	27 December 1994	30 June 1996	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				1 July 1996	16 October 1999
12		K. H. Srinivas	Nominated	29 October 1999	8 July 2002	Template:Ayd	Janata Dal (Secular)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
13		D. H. Shankaramurthy	South West Graduates	8 July 2002	16 June 2004	Template:Ayd	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				16 June 2004	23 November 2005
(11)		H. K. Patil	West Graduates	24 February 2006	17 January 2008	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
14		V. S. Ugrappa	Tumakuru Local Authorities	8 April 2008	1 May 2010	Template:Ayd
15		Motamma	elected by MLAs	1 September 2010	17 June 2012	Template:Ayd
16		S. R. Patil	Vijayapura Local Authorities	28 June 2012	13 May 2013	Template:Ayd
17		Sadananda Gowda	elected by MLAs	17 May 2013	24 May 2014	Template:Ayd	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
18		K. S. Eshwarappa	elected by MLAs	13 July 2014	17 May 2018	Template:Ayd
19		Kota Srinivas Poojary	Dakshina Kannada Local Authorities	2 July 2018	26 July 2019	Template:Ayd
(16)		S. R. Patil	Vijayapura Local Authorities	10 October 2019	5 January 2022	Template:Ayd	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
20		B. K. Hariprasad	elected by MLAs	26 January 2022	20 May 2023	Template:Ayd
21		Chaluvadi Narayanaswamy	elected by MLAs	29 June 2024	incumbent	Template:Ayd	Bharatiya Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |