Karnataka Election 2023: Varuna Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Varuna Assembly Constituency 2023
Varuna comes under the Mysore district and it is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. People of Varuna voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
Varuna assembly constituency had 2,13,809 electors in 2018, out of which 1,08,249 were male voters and 1,05,547 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.7% votes.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 23 candidates in the fray from Varuna constituency. Varuna was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a one way contest with Indian National Congress's Yathindra S comfortably winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's T Basavaraju by a huge margin of 58,616 votes.
The top three candidates split 93.6% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Yathindra S got a total of 96,435 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's T Basavaraju secured 37,819 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate Abhishek S Manegar grabbed the third spot with 28,123 votes. The top three parties got 55.6%, 21.8% and 16.2% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's Siddaramaiah outperformed Karnataka Jantha Paksha's Kapu Siddalingaswamy by 30,174 votes.