Mandya Election 2023: Congress candidate Ravikumar Gowda emerged winner against Janata Dal's BR Ramachandra. Gowda won the election with a margin of 2,019 votes. It was a close fight between the Congress and JD(S) on this seat. He secured a total of 61,411 votes while Ramachandra bagged 59,392 votes. The BJP candidate Ashok Jayaram secured 30,661 votes.
Mandya Assembly constituency falls under the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the 224 assembly constituencies in the state. The constituency is situated in the Mandya district and is one of the eight assembly segments of the Mandya Parliament Seat. Politically, the Mandya constituency has been a stronghold of the Janata Dal (Secular).
The party had won all seven assembly seats in Mandya in 2018. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the constituency gained national attention when Sumalatha Ambareesh, an independent candidate from the constituency won by a large margin of 125876 votes defeating JD (S) leader Nikhil Kumaraswamy of the JD (S).
Over half of the population in Mandya belongs to the Vokkaliga community, the same as that of JDS leaders HD Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy. In the Mandya constituency, for a long time, it is JD(S) or Congress who is securing power and this time too it was a close battle between both parties.
For the May 10 elections, B R Ramachandra of JD (S) contested from Mandya against BJP candidate Ashok Jayaram and P Ravikumar of the Congress. The Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidate Bommaiah was also in the fray from this seat. In 2018, JD (S) M Srinivas won by a margin of 21,608 votes against Congress candidate P Ravikumar.
