Constituency
198. Arkalgud
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2023
KA-ARKALGUD
JDS 38.5%won by 10.1%IND 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (Secular) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 10.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 2018.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 84.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.5% to 84.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,29,870
Turnout
84.4%
Valid votes
1,93,941
Margin
19,605
10.11%
Candidates
16 contested · winner JDS- 1A. MANJUJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS74,64338.5%
- 2M.T. KRISHNEGOWDAIndependent · IND55,03828.4%
- 3H.P. SRIDHARGOWDAIndian National Congress · INC35,94718.5%
- 4H. YOGARAMESHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,57510.1%
- 5HARISH ATHNIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3821.2%
- 6B.T. JAVAREGOWDAAam Aadmi Party · AAP2,0221.0%
- 7SHIVARAJA G.RUPP · UPP7200.4%
- 8NOTANOTA · NOTA6240.3%
- 9KESHAVAMURTHY H.TKarnataka Rashtra Samithi · KRS5750.3%
- 10SRINIVASA M.GIndependent · IND5550.3%
- 11M.C. VISHWANATHA BISALAHALLIIndependent · IND4730.2%
- 12PUNEETH B.RIndependent · IND3860.2%
- 13PUTTARAJAIndependent · IND3810.2%
- 14M.R. SHIVANNAIndependent · IND2940.2%
- 15MANJUNATHA H.PBDBJP · BDBJP1900.1%
- 16VIJAYA BHARATHIIndependent · IND1360.1%
Since 2018
Derived- Winner then
- JDS
- Winner now
- JDS
- JDS–IND swing
- −34.9%
- JDS share
- 45.0% → 38.5%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- 89.9% → 84.4%