Karnataka Election 2023, Hubbali Chittapur Result Highlights: The Congress party has won the Chittapur assembly constituency. The party has fielded Priyank Kharge from this prestigious seat. Kharge defeated his nearest rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Manikanta Rathod by a margin of more than 13600 votes. The grand old party has got 81,303 votes (EVM votes – 81088, Postal votes – 235), while the saffron party has received 67683 votes (EVM – 67450, Postal votes – 233).
Chittapur (SC) is a state Assembly constituency in the Gulbarga district and Hyderabad Karnataka region of Karnataka and is part of the Gulbarga Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency. The Chittapur constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC).
Other major candidates from this assembly constituency are – Subhash Chandra Rathore from the Janata Dal (Secular) and Jagdish S Sagar of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In 2018, Priyank Kharge, who is AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son, won the seat by defeating Valmik Naik of the BJP with a margin of 4393 votes. Mallikarjun Kharge was elected to the Karnataka assembly nine successive times, between 1972 and 2008. He won eight times from the Gurmitkal constitutency, when it was reserved for Scheduled Castes, and once from Chittapur.
Chittapur Results Live: The constituency has Subhash Chandra Rathore from the Janata Dal (Secular) contest against Priyank Kharge from the Indian National Congress (INC), Manikanta Rathod from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The grand old party has got 81,303 votes (EVM votes - 81088, Postal votes - 235), while the saffron party has received 67683 votes (EVM - 67450, Postal votes - 233).
Congress candidate Priyank Kharge is leading by more than 13600 votes in the Chittapur assembly constituency.
The Congress Legislative Party meeting will be held on Sunday in Bengaluru. The party has crossed the majority figure.
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the party will come to power on its own by winning over 120 seats in the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Assembly and claimed the visits of BJP brass led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no impact on the voters of the state. The former Chief Minister was responding to his party surging ahead of the ruling BJP on a day when the votes polled for the May 10 elections in the state were being counted. (PTI)
As per Election Commission of India's latest trends, Congress leader Priyank Kharge is leading by more than 8,700 votes against BJP's Manikanta Rathod.
The celebration has started at AICC headquarter in New Delhi. The party is set to touch the magic figure. Speaking to news agency ANI, senior leader Pawan Khera said that the divisive campaign of the Prime Minister didn't work in the state.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Congress party is leading on 44 seats, while BJP and JDS are leading on 23 seats and seven seats respectively.
The Congress party has taken a lead in the very early trade today.
The counting of votes for Chittapur assembly constituency has commenced.
The security arrangements have been tightened across Karnataka ahead of counting of votes. The elections for 224 seats was held on May 10, 2023.
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 recorded was nearly 72 per cent.