Sirsi | |
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Constituency No. 80 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Karnataka |
District | Uttara Kannada |
LS constituency | Uttara Kannada |
Established | 1956 |
Total electors | 200,755 [1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent Bhimanna Naik [2] | |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2023 |
Preceded by | Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri |
Sirsi Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India. [3]
It is part of Uttara Kannada district. Bhimanna T. Naik is the current MLA from Sirisi.
Source: [4]
Year | Member | Party | |
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1957 | Ramakrishna Hegde | Indian National Congress | |
1962 | |||
1967 | M. H. Jayaprakashanarayan | Praja Socialist Party | |
1972 | Indian National Congress |
Year | Member | Party | |
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1978 | Umakant Borkar | Janata Party | |
1983 | Gopal Mukund Kanade | ||
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1989 | |||
1994 | Jaiwani Premanand Subray | Janata Dal | |
1999 | Vivekananda Vaidya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2004 | |||
2008 | Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri | ||
2013 | |||
2018 | |||
2023 | Bhimanna T. Naik | Indian National Congress |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Bhimanna T. Naik | 76,887 | 47.89 | +13.63 | |
BJP | Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri | 68,175 | 42.47 | −3.05 | |
JD(S) | Upendra Pai | 9,138 | 5.69 | −11.48 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,638 | 1.02 | −0.23 | |
Majority | 8,712 | 5.42 | −5.84 | ||
Turnout | 160,538 | 79.97 | −1.29 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri | 70,595 | 45.52 | ||
INC | Bhimanna T. Naik | 53,134 | 34.26 | ||
JD(S) | Shashibhushan Hegde | 26,625 | 17.17 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,935 | 1.25 | ||
Majority | 17,461 | 11.26 | |||
Turnout | 1,55,079 | 81.26 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
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