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

Kalghatgi Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka, under Dharwad district. Kalghatgi is located 28 km from Hubli and 30 km from Dharwad.The Kalghatgi town is located on National Highway 63 (India) en route from Hubli to Ankola.
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There are 87 villages and one towns in Kalghatgi Taluk. As per the Census India 2011, Kalghatgi Taluk has 31,526 households, population of 1,54,659 of which 79,733 are males and 74,926 are females.
The sex-ratio of Kalghatgi Taluk is around 940 compared to 973 which is average of Karnataka state. The literacy rate of Kalghatgi Taluk is 59.44% out of which 66.29% males are literate and 52.15% females are literate. The total area of Kalghatgi is 684 sq.km with population density of 226 per sq.km.
Out of total population, 89.06% of population lives in urban area and 10.94% lives in rural area. There are 13.56% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 5.42% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Kalghatgi Taluk.
In 2018, this constituency was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party's C M Nimbannavar, who defeated Santosh S Lad of the Indian National Congress with a margin of 25997 votes. In 2013 and 2008 assembly elections, however, the seat was won by Santosh S Lad of Congress.