Out of the 40 contesting candidates in Belagavi, North, South and Rural only 6 candidates have been able to save their deposits and the deposit of all the other 34 candidates will be forfeited.
According to Section 158 of the Representation of the People Act,1951 a sum of Rs.10,000/- in the case of an election from an Assembly Constituency. (The amount of deposit is half in the case of a candidate belonging to a scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe) is taken as a security deposit by the Election Commission.
And as per the above rules – “any candidate who gets less than 1/6th of the total votes polled will have his/her security deposit forfeited by the Commission.”
In all the three constituencies only the Number 1,2 have been able to save their deposits.
Hence only Abhay Patil, M D Laxminarayan, Laxmi Hebbalkar, Sanjay Patil, Anil Benake and Fairoz Saith have been able to save their deposits.
| Belagavi South | Votes | Minimum votes for deposit refund |
| ABHAY PATIL | 84498 | 24453 |
| M D LAKSHMINARAYAN | 25806 | |
| PRAKASH APPAJI MARAGALE | 21537 | |
| KIRAN KRISHNA SAYNAK | 8295 | |
| None of the Above | 1474 | |
| N. S. SHANKARACHARYA | 1392 | |
| MAHESH KUGAJI | 940 | |
| VARDHMAN DEVENDRA GANGAI | 932 | |
| B.RANAGATTIMATH | 613 | |
| SUJIT MADIWALAPPA MULGUND | 531 | |
| SNEHA N.CHODANKAR | 199 | |
| VINAYAK KASHINATH JADHAV | 180 | |
| SADANAND R. METRI | 180 | |
| ANITA SHANKAR DODAMANI | 138 | |
| 146715 | ||
| Belagavi Rural | Votes | |
| LAXMI R HEBBALKAR | 102040 | 31070 |
| SANJAY B PATIL | 50316 | |
| KINEKAR MANOHAR KALLAPPA | 23776 | |
| PATIL SHIVANAGOUDA S | 3794 | |
| None of the Above | 1958 | |
| MOHAN YALLAPPA MORE | 925 | |
| RAJANEESH ACHARYA | 898 | |
| MOHAN REMAJI BELGUNDKAR | 694 | |
| LAXMAN SIDDAPPA BOMMANNAVAR | 546 | |
| SATISH B GUDAGENATTI | 533 | |
| ANWAR K JAMADAR | 517 | |
| SADANAND GANAPAT BHATKANDE | 218 | |
| MAHAMADRAFIK MULLA | 204 | |
| 186419 | ||
| Belagavi North | Votes | |
| ANIL S BENAKE | 79060 | 24571 |
| FAIROZ NURUDDIN SAITH | 61793 | |
| BALASAHEB KAKATKAR | 1869 | |
| None of the Above | 1361 | |
| ASHFAQ AHMED MADAKI | 1143 | |
| SANTOSH BAVADEKAR | 472 | |
| RAHIM DODDAMANI | 353 | |
| SUVARNA P DODAMANI | 263 | |
| SAMBHAJI LAXMAN PATIL | 249 | |
| AHMAR ABDULSATTAR GOVE | 168 | |
| MAGADUM ISMAILMAGADUM | 161 | |
| KURSHIDBANU ASLAM NADAF | 137 | |
| NADAF FAKARUSAB HASANSAB | 111 | |
| K SANTOSH KUMAR | 104 | |
| GANESH SINGANNAVAR | 94 | |
| MOHAMMEDRASUL BEPARI | 88 | |
| 147426 |