Karnataka Election 2023: Sirsi Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Sirsi Assembly Constituency 2023
Sirsi 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 Sirsi will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Sirsi assembly seat had 1,88,284 registered voters, 95,652 were male and 92,631 were female voters. 1.0% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 6 candidates in the fray from Sirsi constituency. Sirsi was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Bhimanna Naik by a margin of 17,461 votes.
The top three candidates split 98.2% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde got a total of 70,595 votes, while Indian National Congress's Bhimanna Naik secured 53,134 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate Shashibhushan Hegde grabbed the third spot with 26,625 votes. The top three parties got 46.1%, 34.7% and 17.4% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party's Anant Kageri Vishweshwar Hegde defeated Indian National Congress's Ayyappanagar Deepak Honnavar by 3,059 votes.