Uchagaon was one of the 224 vidhan sabha seats in the state assembly of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

, in India. It was part of

Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency Belgaum, officially Belagavi, Lok Sabha seat, is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka. Vidhana Sabha segments The composition of Belgaum Lok Sabha seat has undergone several changes. In 1962, there were three ...

, which is adjacent to

Chikkodi Lok Sabha constituency Chikkodi Lok Sabha constituency ( kn, ಚಿಕ್ಕೋಡಿ ಲೋಕ ಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ) is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka in southern India. It's constituency number is 1 in the list o ...

. The seat was a stronghold of

Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (Committee for Integration with Maharashtra)( MES) is a linguistic socio-political committee based out of Belagavi city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It acts as a party demanding the merger Belagavi district ...

(MES). Since the Samiti was not an official party, its candidates contested as independent.

Member of Assembly

* 1967: N P Bharaman (Ind) * 1972: Pawashe, Prabhakar Annappa (प्रभाकर पावशे, Ind / MES) * 1978: Prabhakar Anapa Pawashe (Independent / MES) with 24,377 votes * 1983: Basavant Iroji Patil (Independent / MES) with 41,940 votes * 1985: Patil, Basavant Iroji (Independent) * 1989: Patil Basavant Iroji (Independent) * 1994: Patil Basavant Iroji (Independent) * 1999: Manohar Punnappa Kadolkar (BJP), with 33,990 votes * 2004: Manohar Kallappa Kinekar, IND / MES) with 42,483 votes * This seat was made defunct after the assembly segments were redrawn in 2008. 2009 wards : See Belagavi Rural Assembly constituency

References

Former assembly constituencies of Karnataka {{Karnataka-geo-stub