Karnataka Election 2023: Haliyal Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Haliyal Assembly Constituency 2023
Haliyal is the assembly constituency which comes under the Uttara Kannada district. It is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Haliyal will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 1,69,616 registered voters for Haliyal assembly seat, out of which 86,012 were male and 83,602 were female voters. 0.8% 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 Haliyal constituency. Haliyal was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Indian National Congress's Deshpande R.V winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's Sunil Hegade by a margin of just 5,140 votes.
The top two candidates split 89.8% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Deshpande R.V got a total of 61,577 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Sunil Hegade secured 56,437 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate K. R.Ramesh secured 7,209 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 46.9%, 42.9% and 5.5% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's Deshpande. R. V. defeated Janata Dal (Secular)'s Sunil Hegade by 5,939 votes.