The Janata Dal (Secular) candidate C.R. Manohar won the Kolar Local Authorities Constituency defeating nearest Congress rival M.L.Anilkumar.
Nazir Ahmad of Congress had represented this seat for the last two terms.
While Mr. Manohar polled 3221 votes, Mr. Kumar got 2278 votes. The BJP candidate G.E. Ramegowda could muster only 210 votes.
Kolar has recorded highest percentage of votes in the polls held on Sunday with 5957 among 5961 voters casting their franchise.
BJP fails to retain MLC seat in Raichur-Koppal
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that represented Raichur-Koppal local bodies’ constituency in Legislative Council through Halappa Achar had to surrender the seat to Indian National Congress this time. In a tough fight between the two national parties, Congress candidate Basavaraj Patil Itagi won against his nearest contestant BJP’s C.V. Chandrashekhar by a margin of 328 votes.
Deputy Commissioner of Raichur S. Sasikanth Senthil who was also the Returning Officer of the constituency declared Mr. Itagi as winner at Infant Jesus High School premises where the vote-counting was held.
Of 6760 votes, 6747 were polled, of which 161 votes were invalid. Of the 6586 valid votes, Mr. Itagi, who maintained leading right from the beginning, finally secured 3441 votes to defeat Mr. Chandrashekhar who bagged 3113 votes. Two Independent candidates Mr. Piddappa Gowda and Syed Mujeeb could get 13 and 7 votes respectively. 12 voters rejected all the four candidates in fray by opting None Of The Above (NOTA).
The BJP suffered a setback in Ballari with the Congress wresting the local bodies constituency from the former in the Karnataka Legislative Council election. Congress candidate K.C. Kondaiah won the polls defeating BJP candidate Channabasvavna Gouda Patil by a margin of 1,598 votes. Mr. Kondaiah polled 3,098 votes against the BJP candidate’ 1,500. While 228 votes were rejected, three voters chose the NOTA option. Seven candidates were in the fray.
Congress wins in Bidar
Vijay Singh of the Congress won by a big margin in the election to the state legislative council from local bodies’ constituency in Bidar on Wednesday. Basavaraj Patil Humnabad of the BJP held the seat till now. Read more.
BJP, Congress retain Dakshina Kannada, Udupi seats
BJP’s Kota Srinivasa Poojary and the Congress’ K. Pratapchandra Shetty win the polls, defeating Congress rebels K. Jayaprakash Hegde and Harikrishna Bantwal.
Congress candidate Basavaraj Patil Itagi wins Raichur Koppal constituency.
Earlier story by Our Special Correspondent from Bengaluru:
The counting of votes for elections to the Karnataka Legislative Council from Local Authorities Constituencies began on Wednesday morning.
Counting of ballots began at 11.00 am in Ballari. Congress candidate K. C. Kondaiah is currently leading.
Trends are expected to be known for the 25 seats only by afternoon and the final results by late evening. Counting is being held in 20 centres across the State, including two in Bengaluru.
Candidates who secure “5 per cent votes plus one” will be declared winners. However, in case of none reaching this number, second and third preferential votes will be counted. Results of constituencies with large number of voters and those which will go into counting of preferential votes are expected to be delayed.
Results will be hosted on the Chief Election Commission website www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in.
The ruling Congress is hoping to win around 15 seats which will give it an upper hand in the House, where the opposition BJP now has an edge with 30 seats. Presently, the Congress has only 28 seats in the 75-member council, while the JD(S) has 12.
The Congress has fielded candidates in 21 constituencies, the BJP in 20 and the JD(S) in 18. As many as 60 independents and six candidates of other parties are also in the fray. There are eight women among the candidates.
Elections for the 25 seats of Legislative Council were held on December 27, 2015 and 99 per cent of the 1.6 lakh voters cast their votes.
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