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Belgaum Rural Assembly constituency

constituency of the Karnataka legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ48726802 ↗
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Belgaum Rural Assembly constituency is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka state, in India. It is one of the eight constituencies which make up Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency came into existence for the second time when the assembly map was redrawn in 2008. Prior to that most of its area was under the now-defunct Uchagaon Assembly constituency and Hire Bagewadi Assembly constituency.

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The public source identifies “Belgaum Rural Assembly constituency” as constituency of the Karnataka legislative assembly in India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Belgaum, Rural and Assembly.

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This entry incorporates text from “Belgaum Rural Assembly 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.