Belgaum Rural Assembly constituency

Belgaum Rural
Belgaum Rural
Constituency No. 13 for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Karnataka
District	Belagavi
LS constituency	Belgaum
Established	1951 (first establishment); 2008 (second establishment)
Total electors	2,59,537
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Lakshmi Hebbalkar
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2018

Belgaum Rural Assembly Seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka state, in India. It is one of the eight constituencies which make up Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency came into existence for the second time when the assembly map was redrawn in 2008. Prior to that most of its area was under the now-defunct Uchagaon Assembly constituency and Hire Bagewadi Assembly constituency.

Members of Assembly

Year	Name
Bombay State
1952	Bhosale Alias Kutre Sadashivrao	Indian National Congress
Mysore State
1957-1967: See Belgaum I, Belgaum II
1967-1973: See Uchagaon, Hire Bagewadi
Karnataka
1973-2008: See Uchagaon, Hire Bagewadi
2008	Sanjay Patil	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Sanjay Patil	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Lakshmi Hebbalkar^[1]	Indian National Congress
2023	Lakshmi Hebbalkar^[1]	Indian National Congress

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election: Belgaum Rural^[1]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Lakshmi Hebbalkar	102,040	54.74
	BJP	Sanjay B Patil	50,316	26.99
	MES	Kinekar Manohar Kallappa	23,776	12.75
	JD(S)	Patil Shivanagouda S	3,794	2.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,958	1.05
Majority			51,724
Turnout			1,86,419	77.55
	INC gain from BJP		Swing