Channpatna Election 2023 Result Highlights: Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy won the Channapatna Assembly seat defeating BJP’s CP Yogeshwara by a margin of 15,915 votes. Gangadhar S of the Congress party came third security 15,000 votes. The counting of votes has started at 8 AM today to decide the outcome of the election to the Channapatna Assembly constituency in Karnataka. The constituency has an estimated Scheduled Caste population of 17.43% and an estimated Scheduled Tribe population of 0.46%, according to the report of the Delimitation Commission, 2008.
Channapatna Election Result 2023 Highlights: JDS candidate HD Kumaraswamy defeated BJP leader CP Yogeshwara.
JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said that he has not been contacted as yet for the formation of the government in case of a cliffhanger, adding that he is hoping for a good show.
Congress appeared to be consolidating its lead after crossing the halfway mark in Karnataka assembly polls with the party leading on 117 seats. According to the latest data from Election Commission, the BJP is leading on 75 seats, Janata Dal (Secular) on 25, Independents on 5 and Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha on one each.
Former state Chief Minister and JDS leader Kumaraswamy is leading ahead of Yogeshwara with a margin of 93 votes in Channapatna.
Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy leads by 4630 votes in Channapatna assembly constituency.
Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy trails behind as counting commenced.
JDS candidate HD Kumaraswamy is leading in the consituency. In the 2018 elections, Kumaraswamy polled 87,995 votes and defeated Yogeshwara who managed to get 66,465 votes.
The counting of votes for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls began at 8 am.
Counting across 36 centres will decide fate of 2,615 candidates.
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There are a total of 5.21 crore voters in Karnataka, which includes 2.59 crore women voters and 2.62 crore male voters. Of the total voters, 12.15 lakh voters are above the age of 80, 16,976 are above the age of 100, 4,699 are third gender and 9.17 lakh are first-time voters. This year the voter turnout was recorded at nearly 72 per cent.