Karnataka Election 2023: All eyes on Bellary Rural as Karnataka goes to polls

Karnataka Election 2023: Bellary Rural Assembly seat is one of the 224 seats in the Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of the Bellary Lok Sabha seat. The constituency is reserved for Scheduled Tribes after delimitation in 2008. In 2018, B Nagendra of the Indian National Congress won the seat by defeating Sanna Pakkirappa of the Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 2679 votes.

Karnataka Election 2023 Bellary Rural constituency: Other parties and independent candidate

According to the Election Commission website, the following is the list of candidates that will contest from the Bellary Rural constituency.

• Bharatiya Janata Party - B Sreeramulu
• Bahujan Samaj Party - Nayakar Krishnappa
• Independent - K Shambhulinga
• Indian National Congress - B Nagendra
• Aam Aadmi Party - Jaliyal Rudrappa
• Independent - Shanmukha Naveen Babu

Karnataka Election 2018: Details

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly's term will expire on May 24, 2023. The last Karnataka elections were held on May 12, 2018. The election saw a voter turnout of 72.13 per cent.

Karnataka government was first formed by the single-largest-party BJP under BS Yediyurappa. BJP couldn't stand the floor test in Assembly and lasted only a week. Followed by the coalition of the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Indian National Congress, with H. D. Kumaraswamy as Chief Minister, which lasted 14 months before Yediyurappa and BJP returned to power in the state.

Karnataka Election 2023: Full schedule

The Karnataka Election has scheduled on May 10, 2023 (Wednesday). The vote counting will be done on May 13, 2023 (Saturday) The winning party must have 113 seats to form the Government in Karnataka out of 224 seats.