Karnataka Election 2023: Moodabidri Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Moodabidri Assembly Constituency 2023
Moodabidri is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Dakshina Kannada district. People of Moodabidri voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
Moodabidri assembly constituency had 1,94,947 electors in 2018, out of which 94,397 were male voters and 1,00,541 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.5% votes.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 7 candidates in the fray from Moodabidri constituency. Moodabidri was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Umanatha. A. Kotian won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's K. Abhayachandra by a margin of 29,799 votes.
The top two candidates split 96.0% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Umanatha. A. Kotian got a total of 87,444 votes, while Indian National Congress's K. Abhayachandra secured 57,645 votes. Independent candidate Ashwin Jossy Pereira secured 2,111 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 57.8%, 38.1% and 1.4% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's K Abhayachandra beat Bharatiya Janata Party's Umanatha Kotian by 4,550 votes.