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Bagalkot Lok Sabha constituency

Lok Sabha Constituency in Karnataka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4841427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bagalkot Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. This constituency came into existence in 1967. Sanganagouda Basanagouda Patil, was the first Member of Parliament.

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“Bagalkot Lok Sabha constituency” enters the record as lok Sabha Constituency in Karnataka. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bagalkot, Sabha and constituency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bagalkot, Sabha and constituency.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4841427. Authority coordinates are 16.200, 75.700. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bagalkot Lok Sabha constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.