Karnataka Election 2023: Shiggaon Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Shiggaon Assembly Constituency 2023
Shiggaon is the assembly constituency which comes under the Haveri district. It is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Shiggaon will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In 2018, the Shiggaon assembly seat had 2,09,526 registered voters, 1,09,443 were male and 1,00,077 were female voters. 0.5% 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 Shiggaon constituency. Shiggaon was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Basavaraj Bommai won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Sayed Azeempeer Khadri by a margin of 9,265 votes.
The top two candidates split 93.2% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Basavaraj Bommai got a total of 83,868 votes, while Indian National Congress's Sayed Azeempeer Khadri secured 74,603 votes. Independent candidate Somanna Urf Swamiling Bevinamarad secured 7,203 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 49.3%, 43.9% and 4.2% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party's Basavaraj Bommai beat Indian National Congress's Khadri Sayed Azimpeer Sayed Kaderbasha by 9,503 votes.