Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: The BJP-led NDA is leading in 18 seats. The BJP is ahead in 16 seats, the JD(S) on two and the Congress is ahead in 10 seats as of 12 noon on Tuesday. The results would become clearer by mid-day, say officials.
Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is in ahead of its rival Congress with leads in 16 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats as of 12:00 pm on Tuesday (June 4), as vote counting continues. The BJP is leading in 16 seats so far, its ally Janata Dal (Secular) is leading in two out of three seats it contested, and the Congress is ahead in 10 seats as of 12:00 pm today.
Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women and also recording them, has lost his initial lead against Shreyas M Patel. JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi (BJP) were ahead in the Mandya and Dharwad Lok Sabha segments, according to the Election Commission.
BJP's Tejasvi Surya has also maintained a formidable lead over Congress in Bangalore South, while Shobha Karandlaje is leading in Bangalore North and BY Raghavendra, son of ex-CM BS Yediyurappa, is also ahead in Shimoga. The Congress is ahead in Bellary, Raichur, Gulbarga, Davanahera. Bidar and Chikkodi. The counting began at the 29 counting centres in the State at 8 am, and a "clear picture" may emerge by mid-day, officials said. Elaborate arrangements have been made with the deployment of more than 13,000 staff at the 29 counting centres across Karnataka for the counting of votes for the 28 constituencies, officials said.
Key candidates in Karnataka
BJP's Shobha Karandlaje, Tejasvi Surya, PC Mohan, CN Manjunath and Govind Karjol were among the key candidates in the second phase, as were DK Suresh, Rajeev Gowda, Soumya Reddy, BN Chandrappa and K Jayaprakash Hegde of Congress and Janata Dal Secular's (JDS) HD Kumaraswamy. BJP's Pralhad Joshi, B Sriramulu, Basavaraj Bommai, Ramesh Jigajinagi, Jagadish Shettar and BY Raghavendra were some of the key candidates, along with Geeta Shivarajkumar, Prabha Mallikarjun, Anjali Nimbalkar, Priyanka Jarkiholi, K Rajashekar Basavaraj Hintal and Anandswamy Gaddadevara Math of Congress.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won the majority of the parliamentary seats in Karnataka - 25. An independent candidate Sumalatha, who was part of the NDA and has now joined the BJP, also won a seat, and the Congress-JD(S) alliance each won one of the two remaining seats. The JDS has now allied with the BJP this year, and the stakes are very high.
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