Karnataka Election 2023: Kollegal Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Kollegal Assembly Constituency 2023
Kollegal is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Chamarajanagar district. People of Kollegal voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
Kollegal assembly constituency had 2,09,089 electors in 2018, out of which 1,04,023 were male voters and 1,05,053 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.7% votes.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Kollegal constituency had 7 candidates for assembly seat contention. Kollegal was one of 1 seats won by the Bahujan Samaj Party. Bahujan Samaj Party's N. Mahesh won the election by upstaging Indian National Congress's A.R. Krishna Murthy by a margin of 19,454 votes.
The top three candidates split 97.9% of votes between them. Bahujan Samaj Party's N. Mahesh got a total of 71,792 votes, while Indian National Congress's A.R. Krishna Murthy secured 52,338 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate G.N. Nanjunda Swamy grabbed the third spot with 39,690 votes. The top three parties got 42.9%, 31.3% and 23.7% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's S. Jayanna outperformed Bahujan Samaj Party's N. Mahesh by 10,193 votes.