Haliyal Constituency Election Results: Assembly seat details, MLAs, candidates & more

Haliyal is an assembly constituency in Karnataka, a town in Uttara Kannada. It is the headquarters town for Haliyal Taluk.
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The Haliyal city is divided into 20 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Haliyal Town Panchayat has population of 24,238 of which 12,202 are males while 12,036 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.
Female Sex Ratio is of 986 against state average of 973. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Haliyal is around 967 compared to Karnataka state average of 948. Literacy rate of Haliyal city is 84.41 % higher than state average of 75.36 %. In Haliyal, Male literacy is around 89.23 % while female literacy rate is 79.54 %. Haliyal Town Panchayat has total administration over 5,477 houses.
In 2018, this constituency was won by the Indian National Congress' Deshpande Raghunath Vishwanat, who defeated Sunil Hegade of the Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 5,140 votes. Deshpande had won the election in 2013 as well but Sunil Hegade was the winner in 2008 from JD(S) seat.