Karnataka Election 2023: Shikaripura Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Shikaripura Assembly Constituency 2023
Shikaripura comes under the Shimoga district and it is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. People of Shikaripura voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Shikaripura assembly seat had 1,84,896 registered voters, 93,923 were male and 90,958 were female voters. 0.5% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Shikaripura constituency had 9 candidates for assembly seat contention. Total 104 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shikaripura was one of them. The election for Shikaripura seat was comfortably won by Bharatiya Janata Party's B S Yadiyurappa defeating Indian National Congress's Goni Malatesha by a huge margin of 35,397 votes.
The top two candidates split 90.0% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's B S Yadiyurappa got a total of 86,983 votes, while Indian National Congress's Goni Malatesha secured 51,586 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate H T Balegar secured 13,191 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 56.5%, 33.5% and 8.6% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Karnataka Jantha Paksha's B.S.Yadiyurappa defeated Indian National Congress's H.S.Shanthaveerappagowda(SHANTANNA) by 24,425 votes.