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Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Elections

Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Southern state of Karnataka and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 18. Dakshina Kannada constituency was created in 2008 as part of delimitation.

Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency covers eight assembly segments – Belthangady, Moodabidri, Mangalore City North, Mangalore City South, Mangalore, Bantval, Puttur and Sullia which is reserved for members of Scheduled Castes.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the Bharatiya Janata Party – won by a margin of over 1.43 lakh votes. He had defeated Janardhana Poojary of the Indian National Congress. Kateel had secured 642739 votes while Poojary got 499030 votes.

The voter turnout figure was at 77.15 percent across 1766 polling stations.

Other candidates in the fray were Haneef Khan Kodaje of the Social Democratic Party of India and K. Yadava Shetty of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

In the year 2009, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the BJP– won by a margin of over 40 thousand votes. He had defeated Janardhana Poojary of the Indian National Congress. Kateel had secured 499385 votes while Poojary got 458965 votes.

Some of the other candidates in the fray were Alekkadi Girish Rai of the Bahujan Samaj Party and B. Madhava of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Nalin Kumar Kateel	BJP	Won	774285
Mithun M Rai	INC	Lost	499664
Mohammed Eliyas	SDPI	Lost	46839
Nota	NOTA	Lost	7380
S. Sathish Saliyan	BSP	Lost	4713
Alexander	IND	Lost	2752
H. Suresh Poojary	IND	Lost	2315
Venkatesh Bende	IND	Lost	1702
Vijay Shreenivas .C	UPP	Lost	1629
Supreeth Kumar Poojary	HJP	Lost	948
Maxim Pinto	IND	Lost	908
Deepak Rajesh Coelho	IND	Lost	748
Mohammad Khalid	IND	Lost	602
Abdul Hameed	IND	Lost	554

Dakshina Kannada News

Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada Declares Holiday For Schools, Colleges In Mangaluru, Mulki, Ullal, Moodbidri, Bantwal Regions Amid Heavy Rain Alert

The IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rain with isolated extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over Dakshina Kannada district of Coastal Karnataka.

Jul 04, 2023, 08:45 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi’s Frontal Attack On Congress In Karnataka: ‘It Protects Masterminds Of Terror'

Alleging that Congress tried to save those who were arrested for conspiring to spread terror, PM Modi claimed that it not only withdrew cases against such anti-social elements but also released them.

May 03, 2023, 15:35 PM IST

'Beware we are coming...': Pro-PFI graffiti warning RSS surfaces in Karnataka

Addressing RSS workers as "chaddis" (slang used to shame RSS workers in Kannada language), the slogan read "beware, we are coming back". The miscreants have ended the writing with the bold letters,

Oct 04, 2022, 18:19 PM IST

Monkeypox in India: Health department in Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada sounds alert, Kerala starts testing at Alappuzha NIV lab

Monkeypox in India: The 31-year-old man, who had arrived at Mangaluru from Dubai on July 13, is now undergoing treatment at the government medical college at Pariyaram in Kannur district, said a PTI

Jul 20, 2022, 08:07 AM IST