Karnataka Election 2023: Gokak Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Gokak Assembly Constituency 2023
Gokak is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Belgaum district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Gokak will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 2,36,916 registered voters for Gokak assembly seat, out of which 1,16,816 were male and 1,20,085 were female voters. 0.9% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 9 candidates in the fray from Gokak constituency. Gokak was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao won the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashok Ningayyaswami Pujari by a margin of 14,280 votes.
The top two candidates split 96.7% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao got a total of 90,249 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashok Ningayyaswami Pujari secured 75,969 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate Kareppa Lakkappa Talawar secured 1,553 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 52.5%, 44.2% and 0.9% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's Jarkiholi Ramesh Laxmanrao beat Janata Dal (Secular)'s Ashok Ningayyaswami Pujari by 28,005 votes.