Karnataka Election 2023: Siruguppa Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Siruguppa Assembly Constituency 2023
Siruguppa is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Bellary district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Siruguppa will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
Siruguppa assembly constituency had 1,99,409 electors in 2018, out of which 99,101 were male voters and 1,00,285 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 1.0% votes.
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2018, Siruguppa constituency had 8 candidates for assembly seat contention. Siruguppa was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's M.S. Somalingappa won the election by upstaging Indian National Congress's B. Murali Krishna by a margin of 21,271 votes.
The top two candidates split 95.8% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's M.S. Somalingappa got a total of 82,546 votes, while Indian National Congress's B. Murali Krishna secured 61,275 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate Hosamane B. Maruthi secured 2,482 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 55.0%, 40.8% and 1.7% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's B.M. Nagaraja defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's M.S. Somalingappa by 21,814 votes.