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Karnataka Election 2023: Sandur Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Sandur Assembly Constituency 2023
Sandur comes under the Bellary district and it is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. People of Sandur voted for Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Sandur assembly seat had 2,09,739 registered voters, 1,06,204 were male and 1,03,503 were female voters. 0.9% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Sandur constituency had 6 candidates for assembly seat contention. Sandur was one of 80 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's E Tukaram won the election by upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's D Raghavendra (MANJU) by a margin of 14,010 votes.
The top two candidates split 91.2% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's E Tukaram got a total of 78,106 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's D Raghavendra (MANJU) secured 64,096 votes. Independent candidate Bangara Hanumanta secured 7,191 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 50.1%, 41.1% and 4.6% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's E.Tukaram defeated Janata Dal (Secular)'s Dhananjaya.R by 34,631 votes.