{"id":286640,"date":"2018-05-12T23:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286640"},"modified":"2018-05-12T23:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T17:34:05","slug":"karnataka-exit-polls-battle-for-karnataka-becomes-interesting-most-surveys-predicts-hung-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-exit-polls-battle-for-karnataka-becomes-interesting-most-surveys-predicts-hung-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Exit Poll: Battle For Karnataka Becomes Interesting, Most Surveys Predict Hung Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Karnataka-assemble-Tehalka.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-286641 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Karnataka-assemble-Tehalka-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Karnataka assembly Tehalka\" width=\"335\" height=\"290\" data-id=\"286641\" \/><\/a>Voting was held in 222 of the 224 Assembly seats in Karnataka, in a three-cornered contest involving Congress, BJP and JD-S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha told reporters here &#8220;I want to congratulate the voters of Karnataka. Till 6 pm, the voter turnout in the state was 70 per cent. Barring a few polling stations, voting has been completed at almost all.&#8221; &#8220;By the time we get the final figure, we will have a better turnout than the last election,&#8221; he added. The poll percentage is likely to go up as voters were seen standing in the queue at certain polling stations even after 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 70 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the high-stakes Karnataka Assembly polls today, the Election Commission (EC) said. The last Assembly election in the southern state in 2013 had witnessed 71.4 per cent polling, the poll panel said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the exit polls says that a hung Assembly is on the cards, but are split over whether Congress or BJP will be the single largest. It seems battle for Karnataka has become more Interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are all the exit poll results at a glance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Exit-Polls-Tehelka.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-286644 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Exit-Polls-Tehelka-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"Exit Polls Tehelka\" width=\"428\" height=\"231\" data-id=\"286644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting was held in 222 of the 224 Assembly seats in Karnataka, in a three-cornered contest involving Congress, BJP and JD-S. Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha told reporters here &#8220;I want to congratulate the voters of Karnataka. Till 6 pm, the voter turnout in the state was 70 per cent. Barring a few polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":286641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[453,236,1471,1472,1431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}