Hassan is a Lok Sabha constituency in the state of Karnataka, India. Hassan Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. The constituency was established in 1952 and has no reservation.
- According to a report by The Times of India, Hassan is considered to be a stronghold of the Janata Dal (Secular) party. The report suggests that the Janata Dal (Secular) has won the seat in the past three Lok Sabha elections.
- In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prajwal Revanna of the Janata Dal (Secular) won the seat by defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate with a margin of 1,41,324 votes.
- Hassan Lok Sabha constituency comprises eight legislative assembly segments, which are Kadur, Shravanabelagola, Arsikere, Belur, Hassan, Holenarasipur, Arkalgud, and Sakleshpur.
- According to a report by India TV News, Hassan Assembly constituency is one of the 224 seats in the Karnataka state assembly in India. It is part of the Hassan Lok Sabha seat. In the 2018 assembly elections, BJP's Preetham J Gowda emerged as the winner of the Hassan seat with a vote margin of 13,006 votes.
- According to a report by JSTOR, the BJP derived some benefit from the 1998 elections in Andhra Pradesh.
- The apparent rise of regional political parties is a recurring theme on the Indian political scene. Over the past two decades, India has witnessed a steep increase in the number of parties contesting parliamentary elections and a corresponding decline in the average margin of victory. Both of these data points are evidence of new power centers emerging from within the states.
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