mangalore today

It’s a clean sweep for BJP in Udupi district


Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Many 15, 2018: It has been a clean sweep for the BJP in Udupi district with the party winning all five seats here with a significant margin. In Udupi constituency Raghupathi Bhat of the BJP has defeated  Pramod Madhwaraj.  Raghupathi  bagged 84,291  votes  while Pramod got  72,503 votes.


Udupi district winners

The Winners: Raghupathi Bhat, Sunil Kumar, Lalaji Mendon, Halady Srinivas Shetty and Sukumar Shetty


In Kaup, Lalaji Mendon of the BJP (48,014) defeated Vinay Kumar Sorake of the Congress. Sorake got 39,038 votes as against the 48,014 votes of the winning candidate. Anupama Shenoy who contested from her BJC got just 880 votes.

In Kundapur, it was an expected win for BJP’s Halady Srinivas Shetty who won by a huge margin. He secured 98,444 votes, while Rakesh Malli of Congress got 44,771 votes.

In Karkala too it was a huge victory for Sunil Kumar of BJP who garnered 91,245 votes  while Gopal Bhandary of Congress got 48,679 votes.

In Byndoor, it was a win for BJP’s Sukumar Shetty who got 67,392 votes. Gopal Poojary of Congress got 53,185 votes.