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Karnataka Election 2023: Gandhi Nagar Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Gandhi Nagar Assembly Constituency 2023
Gandhi Nagar is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Bangalore district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Gandhi Nagar will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Gandhi Nagar assembly seat had 2,23,224 registered voters, 1,16,240 were male and 1,06,978 were female voters. 0.9% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 12 candidates in the fray from Gandhi Nagar constituency. Gandhi Nagar was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's Dinesh Gundu Rao won the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's A.R. Sapthagiri Gowda by a margin of 10,070 votes.
The top three candidates split 97.2% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's Dinesh Gundu Rao got a total of 47,354 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's A.R. Sapthagiri Gowda secured 37,284 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate V. Narayanaswamy grabbed the third spot with 36,635 votes. The top three parties got 38.0%, 29.9% and 29.4% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's Dinesh Gundu Rao defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's P C Mohan by 22,607 votes.