Celebration at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi as the party takes lead in the Karnataka election results on May 13, 2023. (PK Das/News18)
Karnataka Election Results 2023: All these 10 seats are where the victory margin has come down to 5% in the last three assembly elections
As the Karnataka election results are coming in, the Congress is currently leading in eight of the 10 swing seats in Karnataka, while the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) are leading in one each. The grand old party maintains its lead over the ruling BJP in the race for 112 points each in the 224-seat Karnataka Assembly, while the JD(S) is set to play kingmaker again.
All these 10 seats are the ones where the victory margin has fallen to 5% in the last three Karnataka assembly election results.
Swing seats where Congress candidates are leading:
- Ramdurg in Belgaum district
- Nagthan in Bijapur district
- Idiots in Haveri District
- Hirekerur in Haveri district
- Ranibennur in Haveri district
- Sringeri in Chikmagalur district
- Chintamani in Chikkaballapur district
- Hosakote in Bengaluru Rural
BJP is leading in Tumkur City seat in Tumkur district, while JDS is leading in Periyapatna seat in Mysore district.
As has been the practice for the past two decades, Karnataka saw a triangular contest, with a direct fight between the said parties in most of the constituencies.
There was a pitch of majority mandate by leaders of all political parties during the high-decibel karnataka election The campaign which ended on Monday as he insisted on getting a clear mandate to form a strong and stable government unlike what happened after the 2018 elections.
In 2018, the BJP had emerged as the single largest party by winning 104 seats, followed by the Congress with 80 seats and the JD(S) with 37. There was also an independent member, while the BSP and the Karnataka Pragyavantha Janata Party (KPJP) got one member each. Legislators each elected.
The Congress-JD(S) alliance formed the government with HD Kumaraswamy as CM, but the faltering system collapsed in 14 months following the resignation of 17 ruling coalition MLAs and their defection to the BJP. This brought back the BJP to power. After this, in the by-elections held in 2019, the ruling party won 12 out of 15 seats.
In the outgoing assembly, the ruling BJP has 116 MLAs, followed by the Congress 69, the JD(S) 29, the BSP one, independents two, the speaker one and the vacant six (due to death and joining other parties before the election). after resignation).
