{"id":302086,"date":"2018-09-03T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302086"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:08:02","slug":"counting-for-102-urban-local-bodies-polls-underway-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/counting-for-102-urban-local-bodies-polls-underway-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting for 102 urban local bodies polls underway in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/>Counting for Karnataka Municipal Election for 102 urban local bodies polls that took place across Karnataka on August 31 is underway, amid tight security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Out of the total 2664 seats, the results for 2267 have been announced and Congress has managed to win 846 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 788, and the Janata Dal (Secular) won 307 seats, with the remaining going to independent candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The polling was held in 2,529 wards, spread over 29 city municipalities, 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats, and in 135 wards of three city corporations of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Updates:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">JDS leads at Hassan district with 46 seats<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is already leading in three municipal corporations of Shimoga, Mysore and Tumkur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Belgavi district, a total of 92 seats out of 200 are won by Independent candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Results of Udupi City Municipal Corporation (CMC) and Saligrama Town Municipal Corporation are still to be declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Results have been announced only for 2 seats out of 35 in Shivamogga, each won by INC and BJP respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Puttur CMC, BJP swept the elections by bagging 25 out of 31 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Kundapur TMC BJP pocketed 14 out of 23 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting for Karnataka Municipal Election for 102 urban local bodies polls that took place across Karnataka on August 31 is underway, amid tight security. Out of the total 2664 seats, the results for 2267 have been announced and Congress has managed to win 846 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 788, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1885,453,236,2487,1472,1430,4600,4601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302086"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302087,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302086\/revisions\/302087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}