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

Udupi is one of the 224 assembly constituencies of Karnataka which is going to polls on May 10. It is part of the Udupi Chikmagalur seat of the Lok Sabha.

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In 2018 elections, BJP's K Raghupathi Bhat won the seat by defeating the sitting MLA of Congress Pramod Madhwaraj with a margin of 12,044 votes.

The BJP candidate secured 84,946 votes while Congress' Madhwaraj received 72902 votes.

In this year’s polls, the Udupi constituency will see a contest between BJP candidate Yashpal Suvarna, Congress' Prasadraj Kanchan and JD(S) candidate Dakshat R Shetty.

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.

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