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{{Short description|Defunct constituency of the Mysore Legislative Assembly}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Mercara Nad
| type = SLA
| map_image =
| state = [[Mysore State]] ''([[Coorg State]] till 31 October 1956)''
| electorate =
| established = 1951
| abolished = 1957
| reservation = None
}}

'''Madikeri Nad''' (also known as '''Mercara Nad'''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-18 |title=CHASING A DREAM: A JOURNALIST REVISITS MUMBAI AFTER 40 YEARS |url=https://www.coorgnews.in/featuresnewsmakers/chasing-a-dream-a-journalist-revisits-mumbai-after-40-years/#google_vignette |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Coorg News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kodagu Ecotourism |url=https://www.kodaguecotourism.com/madikeri.html |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=www.kodaguecotourism.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chander |first=N. J. Ravi |title=Delights of the past and present |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/delights-of-the-past-and-present-3024136 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref>) was a constituency of the [[Mysore Legislative Assembly]] (part of [[Coorg Legislative Assembly]] till 31 October 1956). The lone election to this constituency was conducted in [[1952 Coorg State Legislative Assembly election|1952]] to the legislature of the [[Coorg State|Coorg State (Kodagu)]] in [[India]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q5q4MedrFIC |title=India Votes |year=1968 |page=355}}</ref> The constituency included outskirts of [[Madikeri]]. This seat was included to [[Mysore Legislative Assembly]] in 1956 during the [[States Reorganisation Act|reorganisation of the Indian States]] based along linguistic lines, the state of [[Coorg State|Coorg (Kodagu)]] was merged with [[Mysore State]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of the States Reorganisation Commission - 1955 |url=https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/State%2520Reorganisation%2520Commisison%2520Report%2520of%25201955_270614%5B1%5D.pdf |year=1955 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250503121440/https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/State%2520Reorganisation%2520Commisison%2520Report%2520of%25201955_270614%5B1%5D.pdf |archive-date=2025-05-03 |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=www.mha.gov.in}}</ref>

== Members of Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Member
!colspan="2"|Party
|-
|[[1952 Coorg Legislative Assembly election|1952]]<ref name="CoorgECI1951">{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4106-coorg-1951/ | title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1951: To the Legislative Assembly of Coorg (Kodagu) | publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=2020-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022013656/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_COORG.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2013}}</ref>
|P. D. Subbaiah
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|colspan=5 align=center|1957 onwards: ''Seat does not exist. See [[Madikeri Assembly constituency|Madikeri]]''
|-
|}

== References ==
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{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Karnataka}}

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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Coorg]]
[[Category:Former assembly constituencies of Karnataka]]
[[Category:1957 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:Constituencies disestablished in 1957]]
[[Category:Politics of Karnataka]]

Mercara Nad Assembly constituency - Revision history

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