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

Raibag is an assembly constituency in the Belagavi district of Karnataka.
The constituency is predominantly rural and has a total population of around 2.5 lakh people, with a literacy rate of 68.37%. The economy of the constituency is mainly dependent on agriculture, with sugarcane, maize, and groundnuts being the major crops grown in the region.
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In the 2018 assembly polls, the BJP’s Duryodhan Mahalingappa Aihole won the seat by a vote margin of 17,000 against the Congress’s Pradeepkumar Ramu Malage.
Aihole has been representing the seat since 2008.
The constituency has a total of around 1.8 lakh voters, of which 92,000 are male and 88,000 are female. In the 2018 state elections, the voter turnout in the constituency was around 75%.
The Election Commission has announced that single-phase polls will be held in Karnataka on May 10. The results will be declared on May 13.
There are a total of 224 seats in Karnataka. It is the seventh largest legislative assembly by strength.
In the 2018 assembly polls, the state threw up a fractured mandate with BJP emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats. The Congress won 87 seats while the JD(S) won 30.
The BJP managed to form the government only after several MLAs from the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition joined the saffron party.
The BJP faces anti-incumbency in a state where no party has won consecutive terms in over 20 years. The Congress is banking on BJP’s “incumbency burden” and is confident that the corruption charges against its opponent Basavaraj Bommai will stick.