Out of the 26 seats in Bengaluru, 12 went to BJP and Congress each and 2 seats were bagged by JD(S)
In Bengaluru, 26 constituencies went to polls and it looks like people of Bengaluru are happy with the sitting MLAs as 22 out of the 26 MLAs from the state capital's constituencies were re-elected.
The Congress did not get the response and votes it desired from the whole state, but 10 of its sitting MLAs in Bengaluru performed well. All were reelected except Priyakrishna from Govindaraj Nagar and RV Devaraj from Chickpet, according to a report in The Economic Times.
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Congress MLA BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, who was formerly with JD(S), was also reelected, along with Akhanda Shrinivasamurthy, who had also switched from JD(S).
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The BJP MLAs saw the same results, with 11 out of its 12 leaders getting reelected, the one ousted from the house being YA Narayanaswamy from Hebbal. The new entrants in the list of BJP MLAs are Uday B Garudachar and former housing minister, V Somanna.
The margins of victories varied anywhere between 2,700 and 81,000 votes. The highest was in Pulakeshi Nagar where A Shrinivasamurthy won by 81,626 votes. Sitting MLAs from Yeshwanthapura, Byatarayanapura and Vijaya Nagar saw a sharp decline in their winning margin.
In Bengaluru, the verdict remained split, as opposed to the state where BJP emerged as the largest party. Out of the 26 seats in Bengaluru, 12 went to BJP and Congress each and 2 seats were bagged by JD(S).