BENGALURU: The counting of votes for the aggressively contested Karnataka meeting elections 2023 might be held on Saturday, three days after the voting concluded to elect the 224 members of the state Assembly. The voting handed off peacefully in Karnataka with a voting turnout of 73.19 per cent, surpassing the 72.36 per cent recorded in 2018. A complete of 737 Theme-based and ethnic Model Polling stations have been arrange. At 239 Polling stations arrange within the state, voters have been greeted by PwD workers. As half of the initiative of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to encourage younger voters to take part within the competition of democracy, 286 Polling Stations arrange have been managed by the youngest out there workers. There have been over 11.71 lakh first-time voters registered within the state.
LIVE Coverage | Karnataka Election Result 2023: Congress vs BJP vs JDS
Significant State elections forward of 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
This Assembly election carried a lot significance because it was held nearly a yr earlier than the 2024 normal elections. Apart from the magic determine of 113 seats out of 224 Assembly seats, here’s what it’s worthwhile to know forward of the counting. The counting might be held in 36 centres throughout the State. A transparent image of the result’s more likely to emerge by midday.
2018 Statistics
In the 2018 meeting elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party emerged because the single-largest social gathering with 104 seats, adopted by the Congress with 78 seats and the Janata Dal (Secular) with 37. This time within the 224 Assembly constituencies, a complete of 2,615 candidates contested the polls.
Exit Polls
Notably, Congress is anticipated to have a transparent edge in Karnataka as 4 exit polls giving it a full majority and a few predicting for a hung meeting with a bonus to the social gathering. Just a few exit polls additionally stated that BJP is forward within the sweepstakes to type the federal government. The exit polls, which have been launched after the polling resulted in Karnataka, predicted that Janata Dal-Secular JD(S) wouldn’t contact the 37 seats it gained within the 2018 polls however will proceed to be a powerful regional participant within the state. If Karnataka throws up a hung meeting, the JD-S may emerge within the function of kingmaker.
The fiercely contested election that noticed high-pitch campaigns from the political events is essential for each BJP and Congress. Hectic electioneering by leaders of numerous political events noticed BJP permitting Union Ministers and Chief Ministers to marketing campaign with their full power.
The Congress alternatively labored exhausting to wrest energy from the BJP that’s striving to interrupt the 38-year-old sample of alternating governments and retain its energy within the state. Congress leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, held numerous roadshows, rallies and elections campaigns. An incumbent authorities has not returned to energy in Karnataka after a full time period of 5 years since 1985.
