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Karnataka Election 2023: Tirthahalli Assembly Seat
Karnataka Election: Tirthahalli Assembly Constituency 2023
Tirthahalli is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Shimoga district. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023 for Tirthahalli will be held on May 10 and the result was declared on May 13.
In Karnataka Assembly Election 2018, there were 1,79,638 registered voters for Tirthahalli assembly seat, out of which 89,586 were male and 90,049 were female voters. 0.7% of voters opted for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, there were 8 candidates in the fray from Tirthahalli constituency. Tirthahalli was one of 104 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Araga Jnanendra won the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Kimmane Rathnakara by a margin of 21,955 votes.
The top three candidates split 98.4% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Araga Jnanendra got a total of 67,527 votes, while Indian National Congress's Kimmane Rathnakara secured 45,572 votes. Janata Dal (Secular)'s candidate R.M. Manjunatha Gowda grabbed the third spot with 40,127 votes. The top three parties got 43.4%, 29.3% and 25.8% respectively.
In Karnataka Assembly election 2013, Indian National Congress's Kimmane Ratnakar defeated Karnataka Jantha Paksha's R. M. Manjunatha Gowda by 1,343 votes.