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

Tirthahalli is one of the 224 assembly constituencies of Karnataka which is going to polls on May 10. It is part of Shimoga district.
Karnataka Assembly Election Result 2023 Live Updates
In 2018 elections, Araga Jnanendra of BJP won the seat and became the MLA by defeating Kimmane Rathnakara of Congress with a margin of 21,955 votes.
BJP candidate secured 67,527 votes while Congress' Prasanna received 45,572 votes.
In this year’s polls, the seat will again see a contest between Jnanendra of BJP and the Congress candidate Prasanna.
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.
The election results will be declared on May 13.