Karnataka Election 2023: Turuvekere Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Turuvekere Assembly Constituency 2023
Turuvekere is the assembly constituency which comes under the Tumkur district. It is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Turuvekere will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 1,80,522 registered voters for Turuvekere assembly seat, out of which 90,519 were male and 89,995 were female voters. 0.5% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Turuvekere constituency had 11 candidates for assembly seat contention. Turuvekere was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was a close contest with Bharatiya Janata Party's Jayaram A S winning the election upstaging Janata Dal (Secular)'s M T Krishnappa by a margin of just 2,049 votes.
The top three candidates split 94.3% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Jayaram A S got a total of 60,710 votes, while Janata Dal (Secular)'s M T Krishnappa secured 58,661 votes. Indian National Congress's candidate Rangappa T Chowdri grabbed the third spot with 24,584 votes. The top three parties got 39.8%, 38.4% and 16.1% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Janata Dal (Secular)'s M.T.Krishnappa defeated Karnataka Jantha Paksha's Masala Jayaram by 9,776 votes.