Hassan Election 2023 Results Highlights: The Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Swaroop Prakash has won the Hassan assembly constituency in the recently held Karnataka state legislative elections 2023. Prakash has defeated his nearest rival Preetham J Gowda of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP )by more than 7850 votes.
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The region is considered a stronghold of the family of HD Deve Gowda, a powerful leader of the Vokkalliga community and the national president of JD(S), who began his political career from the Holenarasipura Assembly segment in the district. Over the years, he has built a formidable political base, earlier for Janata Party and now for JDS, in Hassan district. While six constituencies in the district have JDS MLAs, the Hassan constituency is represented by BJP’s Preetham.
Hassan Assembly Constituency Election Results 2023: HS Prakash vs Preetham Gowda
JD(S) candidate Swaroop Prakash defeated BJP's Preetham J Gowda by more than 7850 votes.
The Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Swaroop Prakash is leading in the Hassan assembly constituency by more than 8100 votes from his nearest rival of BJP's Preetham J Gowda.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading by more than 1500 votes after 10th round of counting.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Preetham J Gowda is leading the Hassan assembly seat by more than 370 votes.
Congress party is leading in Karnataka's Hassan assembly constituency by more than 190 votes after round five.
Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera said that the party will form a government in the state with full majority.
The term of the current Karnataka assembly will expire on May 24, 2023. The last state assembly election was held on May 12, 2018.
INC is leading on 57 seats, BJP on 34 seats, JD(S) on seven seats
Congress has asked all its MLAs to reach Bengaluru today. The party is leading in 25 seats out of 39.
According to Election Commission of India, BJP and Congress are leading on 2 seats each. The counting of votes for the recently held assembly election is underway.
The ruling BJP was slightly ahead of the Congress in early trends as the counting of votes was taken up for the Karnataka Assembly elections on Saturday.
The visuals from a strongroom in Hassan as counting of votes begins for Karnataka polls.
According to the Election Commission (EC), Karnataka recorded a 73.19 per cent voter turnout in the May 10 assembly elections, the highest-ever voter turnout in the southern state.
In 2018, BJP had emerged as the largest party, sweeping 104 seats but failed to sweep the majority by falling short of the 112 majority mark. In 2018, Gowda secured 63,348 votes, against his nearest competitor Prakash who got 50,342 votes. With a high voter turnout, the Hassan constituency results will be an interesting contest to follow, as the ballots open for counting on 13th May.
The counting of votes will take place across 36 centres. It will decide the fate of 2,615 candidates.
The Karnataka results were held in a single phase on May 10. The state, which has never voted an incumbent to power in close to three deades, has seen a close contest between the Congress and the BJP. Most exit polls have predicted a hung Assembly. The counting of votes began at 8 AM and the results are expected to be cleared later through the day.