![]() ![]() ![]() While Congress made a clean-sweep of Ballari district, BJP returned the compliment in Udupi district, the only two districts which voted a single party in all the assembly constituencies. In Sirsi, Karnataka Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri of the BJP was defeated by Bhimanna Naik of Congress by 8,712 votes. Khader’s margin was 4,000 more than in 2018. He won with a margin of 22,977 against BJP’s Satish Kumpala. Thus BJP retained 13 of the 19 seats in the region and lost three sitting MLAs, while Congress increased its seats from three in 2018 to six now.ĭespite the saffron domination in Dakshina Kannada, Congress stalwart UT Khader, who enjoys the support of a majority of Muslims, was seen playing cricket on counting day. While Udupi sent all the five BJP legislators to the assembly, BJP managed to win six of the eight Dakshina Kannada constituencies, with Congress winning Puttur and Mangalore, where UT Khader, a former Congress minister, retained his seat.īut it was in Uttara Kannada that Congress won four seats, two more than its 2018 tally of two, and BJP managed only two. But the bastion saw some chinks, with the Grand Old Party doubling its 2018 count. ![]() Dakshina Kannada, the stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party, once again voted as expected to keep the saffron flag flying, and was oblivious to the Congress victory all around. ![]()
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