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Karnataka Election 2023: Mangalore City South Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Mangalore City South Assembly Constituency 2023
Mangalore City South is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Dakshina Kannada district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Mangalore City South will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 2,30,351 registered voters for Mangalore City South assembly seat, out of which 1,10,318 were male and 1,20,025 were female voters. 0.5% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Mangalore City South constituency had 11 candidates for assembly seat contention. Mangalore City South was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's D. Vedavyasa Kamath won the election by upstaging Indian National Congress's J. R. Lobo by a margin of 16,075 votes.
The top two candidates split 96.7% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's D. Vedavyasa Kamath got a total of 86,545 votes, while Indian National Congress's J. R. Lobo secured 70,470 votes. Communist Party Of India (Marxist)'s candidate Sunil Kumar Bajal secured 2,329 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 53.3%, 43.4% and 1.4% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's J.R.Lobo defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's N. Yogish Bhat by 12,275 votes.