Karnataka civic polls: Vote counting begins
Monday - September 3, 2018 9:36 am ,
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Karnataka civic polls: Vote counting begins
Bengaluru Sep 3 (IANS) The counting of votes for 105 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across Karnataka began at 8 a.m. on Monday.
The results of the civic polls which took place on August 31 are expected later in the day or early Tuesday a poll official said.
Polling took place across the 2 633 wards of the state spread over 29 city municipalities 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats and in 135 wards of the three city corporations.
A record average of 67.5 per cent voter turnout was registered across the state for the civic polls.
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were used for polling in all the wards.
A total of 36 lakh voters were registered in the ULB wards and 13.33 lakh in the three towns of Mysuru Shivamogga and Tumakuru.
In all 8 340 candidates including 2 306 from the Congress 2 203 from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 1 397 from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) are in the fray for the ULBs while 814 contested from the city corporations including 135 from Congress 130 from BJP and 129 from JD-S.
In the event of a party not getting majority on its own in the election the Congress and JD-S have decided to forge a post-poll alliance to keep BJP out of power similar to the May 12 state assembly elections which threw up a hung verdict.
In the 2013 ULB elections held in 4 976 seats the Congress had won 1 960 seats while BJP and JD-S had won 905 seats each while Independents bagged the remaining 1 206 seats.
--IANS bha/in
The results of the civic polls which took place on August 31 are expected later in the day or early Tuesday a poll official said.
Polling took place across the 2 633 wards of the state spread over 29 city municipalities 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats and in 135 wards of the three city corporations.
A record average of 67.5 per cent voter turnout was registered across the state for the civic polls.
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were used for polling in all the wards.
A total of 36 lakh voters were registered in the ULB wards and 13.33 lakh in the three towns of Mysuru Shivamogga and Tumakuru.
In all 8 340 candidates including 2 306 from the Congress 2 203 from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 1 397 from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) are in the fray for the ULBs while 814 contested from the city corporations including 135 from Congress 130 from BJP and 129 from JD-S.
In the event of a party not getting majority on its own in the election the Congress and JD-S have decided to forge a post-poll alliance to keep BJP out of power similar to the May 12 state assembly elections which threw up a hung verdict.
In the 2013 ULB elections held in 4 976 seats the Congress had won 1 960 seats while BJP and JD-S had won 905 seats each while Independents bagged the remaining 1 206 seats.
--IANS bha/in
