Live : Hatkanangle Assembly Election 2019

In 2014 general elections, Raju Shetty of Swabhimani Paksha (SWP) was elected from Hatkanangle Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,77,810 votes. Raju Shetty was polled 6,40,428 votes while his nearest rival Kallappa Awade of Indian National Congress (INC or Congress) bagged 4,62,618 votes.

In 2009 general elections, Raju Shetty had defeated former Member of Parliament (MP) from the same constituency, Nivedita Mane, who was a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) nominee then.

Mane was elected from this constituency twice in 1999 and 2004 general elections under the banner of NCP.

In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, two-time MP Raju Shetti, formerly part of the NDA but now with the Congress-NCP-led Mahagathbandhan, will take on Shiv Sena's Dhairyasheel Mane, son of former NCP MP Nivedita Mane.

The constituency has 16,30,598 voters, including 8,50,574 men and 7,80,024 women.

Hatkanangale recorded 70.28 per cent polling when the constituency went to polls on April 23 during the third phase of general elections 2019.

In 2019 general elections, 17 candidates are in fray contesting in Hatkanangale Lok Sabha constituency.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, whose party has a pre-poll pact with the BJP in the state, campaigned in Hatkanangle for the alliance candidate.

The Hatkanangle Lok Sabha constituency consists of 6 Assembly segments, they are: Shahuwadi, Hatkanangle, Ichalkaranji, Shirol, Islampur and Shirala.