Karnataka is the most important state for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in South India as it is only here that it has held power in the past. The BJP has won 17 seats in the state, while the ruling Congress has won 9 seats. Janata Dal (Secular), which is in alliance with the BJP, has secured 2 seats. Karnataka elects 28 of 543 Lok Sabha members.
The BJP which sought to ride on the Modi factor won 17 seats -- down from 25 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections -- while its NDA partner, JD(S), won two constituencies, according to the Election Commission of India.
2024 Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results - Partywise. Pic/ECI website
2024 Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Results - Partywise. Pic/ECI website
2024 Karnataka LS Election Results: Notable Candidates
Suspended JD(S) leader and MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, lost the Hassan Lok Sabha segment, by a margin of 42,649 votes to Shreyas Patel of Congress. Prajwal secured 6,30,339 votes, while Patel got 6,72,988.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's son-in-law, Radhakrishna Doddamani, registered a win in Gulbarga, against Umesh Jadhav of the BJP. BJP won all three seats coming under the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits and Bangalore Rural.
In Bangalore Rural, deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar's brother and MP, D K Suresh, was defeated by eminent cardiologist and former PM H D Deve Gowda's son-in-law Dr C N Manjunath of BJP. Interestingly, this was the only seat Congress had won in 2019. Suresh's defeat is seen as a major setback for Shivakumar, who was nursing chief ministerial ambitions.
Three former CMs, H D Kumaraswamy of JD(S), Basavaraj Bommai and Jagadish Shettar (both BJP) -- won in their Lok Sabha segments of Mandya, Haveri and Belgaum.
Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi and Shobha Karandlaje (BJP) posted wins in Dharwad and Bangalore North Lok Sabha segments, according to the Election Commission, while another Union Minister, Bhagwanth Khuba, was defeated in Bidar by Karnataka Minister Eshwar Khandre's son, Sagar Khandre.
Also among those who won are erstwhile Mysuru royal family scion, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of BJP in Mysore, party veteran B S Yediyurappa's son, B Y Raghavendra, in Shimoga, and the saffron party's youth wing chief, Tejasvi Surya (Bangalore South).
Constituency | Candidate | Party/Alliance |
---|---|---|
Bagalkot | GADDIGOUDAR. PARVATAGOUDA. CHANDANAGOUDA. | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bangalore central | P C MOHAN | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bangalore North | SHOBHA KARANDLAJE | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bangalore Rural | DR C N MANJUNATH | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bangalore South | TEJASVI SURYA | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Belgaum | JAGADISH SHETTAR | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bellary | E. TUKARAM | Indian National Congress |
Bidar | SAGAR ESHWAR KHANDRE | Indian National Congress |
Bijapur | RAMESH JIGAJINAGI | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Chamarajanagar | SUNIL BOSE | Indian National Congress |
Chikkballapur | DR.K.SUDHAKAR | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Chikkodi | PRIYANKA SATISH JARKIHOLI | Indian National Congress |
Chitradurga | GOVIND MAKTHAPPA KARJOL | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Dakshina Kannada | CAPTAIN BRIJESH CHOWTA | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Davanagere | DR. PRABHA MALLIKARJUN | Indian National Congress |
Dharwad | PRALHAD JOSHI | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Gulbarga | RADHAKRISHNA | Indian National Congress |
Hassan | SHREYAS. M. PATEL | Indian National Congress |
Haveri | BASAVARAJ BOMMAI | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Kolar | M. MALLESH BABU | Janata Dal (Secular) |
Koppal | K. RAJASHEKAR BASAVARAJ HITNAL | Indian National Congress |
Mandya | H.D. KUMARASWAMY | Janata Dal (Secular) |
Mysore | YADUVEER KRISHNADATTA CHAMARAJA WADIYAR | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Raichur | G. KUMAR NAIK. | Indian National Congress |
Shimoga | B.Y.RAGHAVENDRA | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Tumkur | V. SOMANNA | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Udupi Chikmagalur | KOTA SRINIVAS POOJARY | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Uttara Kannada | VISHWESHWAR HEGDE KAGERI | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah conceded that the Congress’ performance was not on the expected lines as he had hoped they would bag between 15 and 20 seats.
The Congress defeat in Mysore is seen as a huge setback to Siddaramaiah, as it is his home district, and he had invested a lot of time and energy camping, strategising and campaigning. Among those who also lost are expelled BJP leader, K S Eshwarappa, and film star Shivrajkumar's wife, Geetha Shivrajkumar, of Congress in Shimoga. She had contested against Yediyurappa's son, Raghavendra.
(with PTI inputs)
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