Mudigere Assembly Election 2023: Congress' Nayana Motamma has defeated BJP's Deepak Doddaiah by a margin of 722 votes. Mudigere constituency saw the key contest between BJP’s Deepak Doddaiah, JD(S) MP Kumaraswamy and Congress’ Nayana Jyothi Jhawar. The election took place on May 10 and the results were declared on May 13.
Karnataka has a total of 224 assembly seats and the half-way mark to claim the majority is 113. Ahead of the election, incumbent Mudigere BJP MLA MP Kumaraswamy submitted his resignation from the primary membership of the party for being denied ticket.
The 3-time BJP MLA blamed BJP national general secretary CT Ravi for being denied the ticket to contest from Mudigere.
In 2018, BJP’s MP Kumaraswamy won the election by defeating Motamma of the Congress with a margin of 12,512 votes.