Out of the 185 women candidates who contested in this year’s State Assembly elections, 10 have emerged victorious including some women who were in the fray for the first time. The outgoing Assembly also had 10 women legislators.
Laxmi. R. Hebbalkar, Roopakala M., and Shashikala Jolle are amongst the women who have been re-elected while Anjali Nimbalkar and K. Poornima are among the incumbent MLAs who lost. Kusuma H., the Congress candidate from Rajarajeshwari Nagar, put up a fight against Munirathna, who eventually won.
In Belagavi Rural constituency, Ms. Hebbalkar of the Congress won with a huge margin of 56,016 votes against Nagesh Annappa Manolkar of BJP. After losing the elections in 2013 from the same constituency, she has managed to score two consecutive wins in 2018 and 2023. For Ms. Roopakala, the Congress candidate from KGF and Kaneez Fatima from the same party (wife of ex-minister Qamar–ul– Islam) who contested in Gulbarga North, too, this would be a second term in the constituency.
