{"id":305058,"date":"2018-11-03T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305058"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:20:28","slug":"karnataka-bypolls-updates-voting-for-lok-sabha-assembly-polls-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-bypolls-updates-voting-for-lok-sabha-assembly-polls-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka bypolls updates: Voting for Lok Sabha, Assembly Polls underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-dates-of-panchayat-polls-announced-to-be-held-in-9-phases\/polling\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302712\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302712 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-475x420.jpg 475w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Voting for the bypolls to the three Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Karnataka began on November 3 which will test the Congress-JDS coalition in the state. Voting started at 7 am and both the parties have fielded joint candidates in all the seats. There are a total 31 candidates in the fray in all the five constituencies and the results will be declared on November 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Live 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;\">A total of 54,54,275 voters are eligible to cast their franchise in about 6,450 polling stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JDS is contesting the Mandya and Shivamogga Lok Sabha seats and the Ramanagara assembly constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress has put up candidates in the Lok Sabha seat in Ballari and assembly seat in Jamkhandi. T<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nearly 35% polling was reported till 1 pm in Karnataka by-polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting turnout till 3 pm in three parliamentary constituencies is as follows 47% in Bellary, 41.49% in Shimoga and 37.7% in Mandya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In two Legislative assembly constituencies: 58.82% in Jamkhandi and 54.76% in Ramnagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, a total of 1,502 polling stations have been declared as sensitive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the bypolls to the three Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Karnataka began on November 3 which will test the Congress-JDS coalition in the state. Voting started at 7 am and both the parties have fielded joint candidates in all the seats. There are a total 31 candidates in the fray in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[9465,9466,1430,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305058"}],"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=305058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305059,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305058\/revisions\/305059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}