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Davanagere Assembly constituency

former legislative assembly constituency in Karnataka, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ124153651 ↗
Source-derived summary

Davanagere Assembly constituency was one of the constituencies in Karnataka state assembly in India until 2008 when it was made defunct. It was part of Davangere Lok Sabha constituency.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Davanagere, Assembly and constituency providing the first useful test.
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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 May 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124153651. Authority coordinates are 14.467, 75.920. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Davanagere 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.