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The election saw a final voter turnout of 73.84%, the highest ever recorded in the history of Legislative Assembly elections in Karnataka. [1] [2] The Indian National Congress won the election in a landslide by getting 135 seats, making it their biggest win by seats and vote share in Karnataka since the 1989 elections.
The 16th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka was formed following the 2023 Assembly election for all 224 seats. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The election were held on 10 May 2023 and the results were declared on 13 May 2023.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Karnataka campaign kicked off in March 2024, a month before going to polls. It was announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit Gulbarga , the constituency represented by Indian National Congress (INC) President Mallikarjun Kharge twice in the past. [ 7 ]
The BJP-led NDA surpassed the majority threshold of 272 and won 293 seats. However, unlike the previous election, the BJP did not win a majority in both houses of parliament having only won 240 seats (losing 63 seats from the 303 seats they previously held since 2019 as well as losing their 10-year long benefit of being the sole-controller of both houses of parliament since 2014) in the Lok ...
A record quantity of bribes, including cash, booze, drugs and precious metals, has been seized by Indian election authorities in the run-up to mammoth nationwide polls that begin on Friday.
For the 2024 election, 968 million people were eligible to vote, an increase of about 150 million people from the 2019 election. [34] In Arunachal Pradesh , a polling station would be set up for the only registered voter in the village of Malogam, as electoral laws stipulate that voting booths need to be within two kilometres (1.2 mi) of any ...
Despite arguing for the elections to be held off due to delays in completing the delimitation process, the Karnataka State Election Commission had been ordered by the Karnataka High Court in December 2020 to hold elections within the existing 198 wards. Soon after, the state government published the BBMP Act, 2020, which increased the number of ...
The strength of BJP in Karnataka state politics increased significantly between October 2007 and April 2009. [5] Ahead of the 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, BJP had emerged as the sole viable alternative to the Janata Dal (S) and the Congress Party in Karnataka state politics. [18]