Highlights
The counting of votes for three Lok Sabha seats—Shivamogga, Ballari and Mandya—and 2 Assembly seats—Jamkhandi and Ramanagara—begins. File Photo: HT
- New Delhi: The results of bypolls to three parliamentary and two assembly seats in Karnataka, which went to the polls on Saturday, will be declared today. The counting of votes for three Lok Sabha seats—Shivamogga, Ballari and Mandya—and 2 Assembly seats—Jamkhandi and Ramanagara—has begun. The Congress and JD(S) have allied together to fight the BJP in the by-polls that would be a testing ground for the alliance before 2019. Coming just five months after the May assembly elections, the BJP is hoping to repeat it’s earlier performance, when it had emerged as the single largest party with 104 out of 224 seats or just eight shy of forming the government on its own. Here are the latest updates on the Karnataka bypoll results: