Karnataka Election 2023: Hiriyur Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Hiriyur Assembly Constituency 2023
Hiriyur is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Chitradurga district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Hiriyur will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 2,32,620 registered voters for Hiriyur assembly seat, out of which 1,16,441 were male and 1,16,143 were female voters. 0.5% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 13 candidates in the fray from Hiriyur constituency. Hiriyur was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's K Poornima won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's D Sudhakar by a margin of 12,875 votes.
The top three candidates split 98.4% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's K Poornima got a total of 77,733 votes, while Indian National Congress's D Sudhakar secured 64,858 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate D Yashodhara grabbed the third spot with 42,044 votes. The top three parties got 41.4%, 34.6% and 22.4% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's D.Sudhakar defeated Janata Dal (Secular)'s A.Krishnappa by 1,205 votes.