<p>Janata Dal (Secular) leader Swaroop Prakash on Saturday snatched the Hassan seat from the BJP's Preetham J Gowda, securing a victory by a margin of 8,895 votes.</p>.<p>The seat witnessed a neck-and-neck fight with the JD(S) candidate bagging 84,005 votes while the BJP's Gowda polled 75,110 votes. Congress candidate Banavase Rangaswamy was in third place with 4241 votes.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/karnataka/karnataka-assembly-election-2023-results-live-counting-bjp-congress-jds-basavaraj-bommai-siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-hd-kumaraswamy-1218170.html#1" target="_blank">Track live updates</a></p>.<p>In 2018, Gowda had broken the JD(S) monopoly on the seat, defeating H S Prakash by a margin of about 13,006 votes.</p>
<p>Janata Dal (Secular) leader Swaroop Prakash on Saturday snatched the Hassan seat from the BJP's Preetham J Gowda, securing a victory by a margin of 8,895 votes.</p>.<p>The seat witnessed a neck-and-neck fight with the JD(S) candidate bagging 84,005 votes while the BJP's Gowda polled 75,110 votes. Congress candidate Banavase Rangaswamy was in third place with 4241 votes.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/karnataka/karnataka-assembly-election-2023-results-live-counting-bjp-congress-jds-basavaraj-bommai-siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-hd-kumaraswamy-1218170.html#1" target="_blank">Track live updates</a></p>.<p>In 2018, Gowda had broken the JD(S) monopoly on the seat, defeating H S Prakash by a margin of about 13,006 votes.</p>