Bengaluru: BJP has registered a massive win in Karnataka as it has secured 25 seats in Karnataka out of 28 constituencies. With independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh winning the Mandya seat, it is one seat in addition to the BJP as the party had supported her candidacy.

Except for two seats (one each for the Congress and the JDS), the coalition has failed miserably in the state.

The state experienced surprising developments in many constituencies including Kalaburagi, Tumakuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar.

In Kalaburagi (also known as Gulbarga), 10-time MLA, veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge (5,20,726 votes) was defeated by BJP's Umesh Jadhav (6,15,894 votes).

Jadhav had quit Congress and joined the BJP in March to contest against his former colleague Mallikarjun Kharge. 

In Tumakuru, former CM Deve Gowda was defeated by BJP's GS Basavaraj. Even Congress supporters were opposed to fielding Deve Gowda from Tumakuru. He had shifted base as he left his home turf Hassan for grandson Prajwal Revanna to contest. Ironically, Hassan is the only place in Karnataka where JD(S) won.

Deve Gowda secured 5,81,624 votes and GS Basavaraj got 5,94,011 votes in Tumakuru.

Whereas in Mandya, JD(S) was confident of Nikhil Kumaraswamy's win, but Sumalatha was banking on sympathy votes following the death of husband Ambareesh and campaigns by the likes of Sandalwood stars Yash and Darshan.

In a neck-to-neck battle, as each round progressed, the results swung alternately. In the last two rounds, Sumalatha gained a comfortable lead and won the election with a margin of nearly 1.25 lakh. Sumalatha secured 7,01,122 votes, whereas Nikhil secured only 5,75,540 votes.

It was a close call in Chamarajanagar as V Srinivas Prasad of BJP was facing Congress's R Dhruvanarayan and won the election just with 833 votes. Srinivas Prasad was a veteran Congress leader, but quit the party and joined BJP when he was removed from the ministry during Siddaramaiah's tenure as chief minister in 2016. Dhruvanarayana was his ardent disciple but he decided to remain in the party. Thus the duo was facing each other for the first time and at last the master won amidst news of some EVM machines not working properly hampering the counting of votes. The problem was set right later.

Srinivas Prasad got 5,66,267 votes whereas his disciple and now arch rival Dhruvanarayan secured 5,65,434 votes.       

In another interesting development, 7-time MLA from Congress, KH Muniyappa (498156) of the Congress was defeated by S Muniswamy (707863) of the BJP in Kolar. JD(S) leaders openly admitted to have campaigned against Congress candidate Muniyappa, despite being allies of his party. 

Congress registered its victory in one constituency with the win of DK Suresh in Bengaluru Rural. DK Suresh, who secured 8,78,258 votes, defeated BJP's Ashwathnarayana, who got 8,78,258 votes. 

JD(S) too has only one win in their kitty with Prajwal Revanna winning the Hassan seat against BJP's A Manju. Prajwal contested the election for the first time and secured 6,76,606 against BJP's A Manju, who got 5,35,282 votes.

It was a landslide for BJP in Karnataka too with Tejasvi Surya of Bengaluru South winning with a 3 lakh margin. 

Anant Kumar Hegde was the first one to set a  record as he won with a record margin of over 4.5 lakh votes. Hegde secured 7,86,042 votes and his closest opponent Anand Asnotikar got 3,06,393 votes.

Karnataka bypolls:

Karnataka went for bypolls with respect to two constituencies Chincholi and Kundagol. In Kundagol, Kusuma Shivalli of the Congress won the election and in Chincholi, the victory was in the name of Avinash Jadhav of the BJP.

Here are the results of 28 Lok Sabha constituencis:

No

Constituency

BJP

Congress

JD(S)

Independent

Winner

1

Chikkodi

Anna Saheb Jolle

Prakash Hukkeri

 

 

Anna Saheb Jolle

2

Belagavi

Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi

Virupakshi S Sadhunnavar

 

 

Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi

3

Bagalkot

Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar

Veena Kashappanavar

 

 

Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar

4

Vijayapur

Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi

 

Dr Sunitha Chowhan

 

Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi

5

Kalaburagi

Umesh Jadhav

Mallikarjuna Kharge

 

 

Umesh Jadhav

6

Raichur

Raja Amresh Nayak

BV Nayak

 

 

Raja Amresh Nayak

7

Bidar

Bhagwanth Khuba

Eshwar Khandre

 

 

Bhagwanth Khuba

8

Bellary

Devendrappa

VS Ugrappa

 

 

Devendrappa

9

Koppal

Sanganna Karadi

Rajashekhar Hitnal

 

 

Sanganna Karadi

10

Haveri

Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi

DR Patil

 

 

Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi

11

Dharwad

Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi

Vinay Kulkarni

 

 

Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi

12

Uttara Kannada

Anant Kumar Hegde

 

Anand Asnotikar 

 

Anant Kumar Hegde

13

Davanagere

Gowdar M Siddeshwara


H B Manjappa

 

 

Gowdar M Siddeshwara

14

Shivamogga

B Y Raghavendra

 

Madhu Bangarappa

 

B Y Raghavendra

15

Udupi-Chikkamagalur

Shobha Karandlaje

 

Pramod Madhwaraj 

 

Shobha Karandlaje

16

Hassan

A Manju

 

Prajwal Revanna

 

Prajwal Revanna

17

Dakshina Kannada

Nalin Kumar Kateel

Mithun Rai

 

 

Nalin Kumar Kateel

18

Chitradurga

A Narayana Swamy

BN Chandrappa

 

 

A Narayana Swamy

19

Tumakuru

G S Basavaraj

 

Deve Gowda

 

G S Basavaraj

20

Mandya

 

 

Nikhil Gowda

Sumalatha Ambareesh (BJP supported)

Sumalatha Ambareesh

21

Mysuru-Kodagu

Prathap Simha

CH Vijayshankar

 

 

Prathap Simha

22

Chamarajanagar

Srinivasa Prasad

R Dhruva Narayana

 

 

Srinivasa Prasad

23

Bengaluru Rural

Ashwat Narain

DK Suresh

 

 

Ashwat Narain

24

Bengaluru  North

DV Sadananda Gowda

Krishna Byre Gowda

 

 

DV Sadananda Gowda

25

Bengaluru Central

P C Mohan

Rizwan Arshad

 

Prakash Raj

P C Mohan

26

Bengaluru  South

Tejaswi Surya

BK Hariprasad

 

 

Tejaswi Surya

27

Chkkaballapur

B N Bachchegowda

M Veerappa Moily

 

 

B N Bachchegowda

28

Kolar

H Muniswamy

KH Muniyappa

 

 

H Muniswamy