Karnataka Election 2023: Bailhongal Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Bailhongal Assembly Constituency 2023
Bailhongal is the assembly constituency which comes under the Belgaum district. It is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Bailhongal will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 1,81,792 registered voters for Bailhongal assembly seat, out of which 91,786 were male and 90,003 were female voters. 0.7% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Bailhongal constituency had 7 candidates for assembly seat contention. Bailhongal was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. It was a close contest with Indian National Congress's Koujalagi. Mahantesh. Shivanand. winning the election upstaging independent candidate Jagdish. Channappa Metgud by a margin of just 5,122 votes.
The top three candidates split 88.2% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Koujalagi. Mahantesh. Shivanand. got a total of 47,040 votes, while independent candidate Jagdish. Channappa Metgud secured 41,918 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Vishwanath Iranagouda Patil grabbed the third spot with 37,498 votes. The top three parties got 32.8%, 29.2% and 26.1% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Karnataka Jantha Paksha's Vishwanath I Patil outperformed Bharatiya Janata Party's Jagadish @ Virupaxi Channappa Metgud by 3,621 votes.