Karnataka Election 2023: Bhatkal Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Bhatkal Assembly Constituency 2023
Bhatkal comes under the Uttara Kannada district and it is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. People of Bhatkal voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 2,12,590 registered voters for Bhatkal assembly seat, out of which 1,08,412 were male and 1,04,177 were female voters. 0.9% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Bhatkal constituency had 6 candidates for assembly seat contention. Bhatkal was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was a close contest with Bharatiya Janata Party's Sunil Biliya Naik winning the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Mankal Vaidya by a margin of just 5,930 votes.
The top two candidates split 97.9% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Sunil Biliya Naik got a total of 83,172 votes, while Indian National Congress's Mankal Vaidya secured 77,242 votes. All India Mahila Empowerment Party's candidate Gaphur Sab secured 1,446 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 50.7%, 47.1% and 0.9% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Independent candidate Mankala Subba Vaidya outperformed Janata Dal (Secular)'s Enayathullah Shabandri by 9,884 votes.