BJP wins 25 seats out of 28 in Karnataka

BJP has won 25 seats out of 28 in Karnataka. The alliance of INC and JD(S) has won two seats, whereas actress turned politician Sumalatha, an independent candidate won from Mandya.

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• BJP's Tejasvi Surya leading from Bengaluru South and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge trailing from Gulbarga.
• JD(S) leader Nikhil Kumaraswamy leading from Mandya parliamentary seat; Independent candidate Sumanlatha Ambareesh trailing
• Independent candidate Sumanlatha Ambareesh leading by over 1200 votes from Mandya over Karnataka CM & JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
• Independent candidate Sumanlatha Ambareesh leading by over 5000 votes from Mandya over Karnataka CM & JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
• BJP has won 3 seats. Anant kumar hegde won from Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency whereas Shivakumara Jigajinagi won from Haveri constituency. Ramesh Jigajinagi has also won from Bijapur constituency.
• JD(S) candidate Prajwal Revanna won from Hassan constituency.
• BJP candidate Karadi Sanganna won from Koppala.
• From Banglore rural constituency DK Suresh won.
• From Bellary constituency Y Devendrappa won.
• K.H. Muniyappa, congress candidate who won continuously 7 times, lost Kolar to BJP candidate S. Muniswamy.
• H.D. Devegowda lost Tumkur constituency to G.S. Basavaraj.
• Mallikararjun Kharge lost Gulbarga constituency.
• CM's son Nikhil Kumarswamy, candidate of JD(S) lost to independent candidate Sumalatha in Mandya.
• BJP's Nalin Kumar Kateel won from Dakshina Kannada by 2,74,621 votes.
• BJP won 25 seats out of 28 in Karnataka.
• The alliance of INC and JD(S) won two seats.

Bengaluru: Counting of votes began at 8 am today in all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies across Karnataka and postal ballots were taken up first. Of the 98,606 postal ballots received, 25,768 are from service voters.

Counting centers are in the district headquarters of each parliamentary seat while three are in Bengaluru for each of its three constituencies - North, Central, and South.

The vote count for the two by-elections held on May 19 in the Chincholi and Kundagol Assembly segments also began simultaneously in Kalaburagi and Dharwad districts.

Of the 5.12-crore electorate in the 28 seats, 3.51-crore voted, accounting for 68.61 percent. A total of 461 candidates contested in the 28 seats, of which five are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and two for Scheduled Tribes (ST).

The counting in each constituency will be from its 7-8 assembly segments and 224 in all the 28 Lok Sabha seats. In all, there were 58,186 polling stations.

The 14 seats which went to the polls in the first phase are Udupi-Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga (SC), Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamarajnagar (SC), Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkaballapur and Kolar (SC).

The 14 others where polling was held in the second phase are Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur (SC), Gulbarga (SC), Raichur (ST), Bidar, Koppal, Bellary (ST), Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Shimoga.

There are 40 VVPATs in every Lok Sabha constituency in the state.