He was defeated by V. Sunil Kumar of BJP in 2013 by a margin of 4254 votes.

[1] H. Gopal Bhandary first became the Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly (MLA) in 1999.

[2] H. Gopal Bhandary died due to heart attack on 4 July 2019[3] while he was travelling from Bengaluru to Mangaluru on a Volvo Bus.

[4] His cremation took place at Hutturke, Hebri, in Udupi district.

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