Karnataka bypoll results 2018: Will work with Congress to win all 28 LS seats, says CM Kumaraswamy

Congress-JD(S) alliance wins four out of five seats in Karnataka By-Election2018, Bellary, Mandya, Ramanagaram and Jamkhandi. BJP wins Shimoga Lok Sabha seat.

"This elections was the first step. There are 28 Lok Sabha seats, we'll work with Congress to win all of them, that is our goal. This is not an empty boast just because we have won today. This is the confidence of people in us. This win is not making us arrogant," said Karnataka CM.

"I congratulate Congress leaders in the state and at the Centre. I also congratulate JDS state leaders and workers who worked towards this win. BJP calls JDS-Congress coalition 'Apavitra Maitri', today that contention has been nullified," said Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy.

Senior Congress leader and Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the lesson of the 4-1 victory in the parliamentary and assembly bypolls in Karnataka is that the alliance has turned out beneficial.

"The 4-1 win in the Karnataka bye-elections is similar to the Test series of Indian cricket team led by Virat Kohli. Lesson to be learnt: Alliance has turned out to be beneficial," Chidambaram tweeted.

"People have rejected BJP. It is also a rejection of Modi government. Bypoll results will send a message to the entire country that the time for change has come," said Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief Dinesh Gundu Rao.

Resounding win for the @INCIndia & @JanataDal_S coalition in Karnataka. 4-1 thrashing to BJP.
People have rejected the negative politics of BJP in Karnataka and the abject failure of Modi govt in addressing people’s issues.
Congrats to all the winners.

— Dinesh Gundu Rao (@dineshgrao) November 6, 2018

DK Shivakumar took to Twitter to thank the people of Karnataka.

This Deepavali, I thank the people of Karnataka & especially Bellary for blessing Congress party with this record victory.

With support & guidance of Congress President Shri @RahulGandhi & Former PM Shri HD Devegowda, the coalition leaders & workers strived hard to defeat BJP

— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) November 6, 2018

"In any democratic result, election process...people's mandate is very important. It's the direction to the people of this country, says DK Shivakumar.

Definitely. In any democratic result, election process...people's mandate is very important. It's the direction to the people of this country: Karnataka Minister DK Shivakumar, when asked 'will it (#KarnatakaByElection2018) give a message to the whole nation before 2019 election' pic.twitter.com/nvgsPmqCsI

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

"I think as far as southern India is concerned, you can't make Ram Mandir and all those issues a political plank. People are looking at what they're going to get, what benefit they're going to get in social and economic sector, administration and transparency," says Congress leader DK Shivakumar.

JDS' Anitha Kumaraswamy wins Ramanagaram assembly seat with a margin of 1,09,137 votes.

JDS's Anitha Kumaraswamy still leading by over one lakh votes in Ramanagaram and Shivaramegowda ahead by 233517 votes in Mandya.

Congress' Ugrappa ahead by more than 2 lakh votes in Bellary.

BJP's BY Raghavendra leads by 47388 votes in Shimoga.

In Jamkhandi assembly seat, Congress' AS Nyamagouda, son of former MLA Siddu Nyamagouda, defeated BJP's Srikant Kulkarni  by a margin of 39480 votes.

Bypolls to Jamkhandi Assembly seat was necessitated due to the death of Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda

JDS workers celebrate in Ramanagaram. JDS' Anitha Kumaraswamy is leading by 1,00,246 votes in the assembly seat. Congress-JD(S) alliance is leading on four out of five seats.

Karnataka: JD(S) workers celebrate in Ramanagaram. JDS' Anitha Kumaraswamy is leading by 1,00,246 votes in the assembly seat. Congress-JD(S) alliance is leading on 4 out of 5 seats in #KarnatakaByElection2018 pic.twitter.com/4s1RAZ6vfU

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

Karnataka: Congress members and workers celebrate outside party office in Bengaluru. Congress-JD(S) alliance is leading on 4 out of 5 seats in #KarnatakaByElection2018 pic.twitter.com/FulEjChHX1

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

Karnataka: Congress workers celebrate outside the counting station in Bellary.

Karnataka: Congress workers celebrate outside the counting station in Bellary. Congress' candidate VS Ugrappa is leading by 184203 votes in the parliamentary seat. #KarnatakaByElection2018 pic.twitter.com/4y6l9ZqY8j

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Congress' Nyamagouda leads by 32933 votes in Jamkhandi.

JDS's Anitha Kumaraswamy leads by 82928 votes in Ramanagaram.

BJP's BY Raghavendra leads by 36467 votes in Shimoga.

Congress VS Ugrappa leads by 184203 votes in Bellary

JDS LR Shivaramegowda leads by 121963 votes in Mandya

Former Prime Minister of India and National President of Janata Dal (Secular) Devegowda thanked the people of Karnataka with a tweet

"I thank people of Karnataka for supporting development-centric administration of JDS-INC Government. People of the state have given their response to those who were trying to destabilise the state Government. #ThankYouKarnataka"

I thank people of Karnataka for supporting development-centric administration of JDS-INC Government.
People of the state have given their response to those who were trying to destabilise the state Government.#ThankYouKarnataka

— H D Devegowda (@H_D_Devegowda) November 6, 2018

Congress' Nyamagouda leading by 32933 votes in Jamkhandi while Ugrappa leading by 151060 votes in Bellary.

JDS's Anitha Kumaraswamy ahead with 65990 votes in Ramanagaram, while Shivaramegowda leads by 76952 votes in Mandya.

BJP's BY Raghavendra leads by 32563 votes in Shimoga.

Congress leads in Jamkhandi & Bellary, JDS leads in Ramnagara and Mandya; BJP leads in Shimoga.

BJP's Raghavendra leading over JDS' Madhubangarappa by 9665 votes after four rounds of counting in Shimoga.

Congress Ugrappa leading over BJP J Shantha by 1,00,723 votes in Bellary after counting of votes for Round 6.

JD(S) leading by 1,09,066 votes over BJP in Mandya parliamentary seat after counting of votes in round 5. BJP's BY Raghavendra leads over JD(S)'s S Madhubangarappa by 2627 votes in the 3rd round of counting in Shimoga parliamentary seat.

Congress' VS Ugrappa leading over BJP's J Shantha by 84257 votes in Bellary parliamentary seat after counting of votes for Round 5. 

JDS's S Madhubangarappa leads over BJP's BY Raghavendra by 1414 votes in the 2nd round of counting in Shimoga parliamentary seat. Congress' VS Ugrappa leading over BJP's J Shantha by 64000 votes in Bellary parliamentary seat after counting of votes for Round 4.

Early election result trends: Congress' VS Ugrappa leading over BJP's J Shantha by 45808 votes in Bellary parliamentary seat after counting of votes for Round 3. INC's Anand Siddu Nyamagouda leads with 9555 votes in Jamkhandi, Congress' VS Ugrappa leads with 64000 votes in Bellary and JDS's Anitha Kumaraswamy leading with 18766 votes in Ramnagaram.

BJP's BY Raghavendra is leading over JDS's S Madhubangarappa by 3906 votes after the first round of counting in Shimoga parliamentary seat. Meanwhile, Congress' Anand Siddu Nyamagouda is leading over BJP's Kulkarni Shrikant Subrao by 7149 votes in Jamkhandi assembly seat after four rounds of counting.

JDS's Kumaraswamy is still leading over BJP's Chandrashekhar by 14813 votes in Ramanagaram assembly seat after three rounds of counting.

Congress' VS Ugrappa leading over BJP's J Shantha by 17480 votes in Bellary parliamentary seat after the first round of counting.

Congress' Anand Siddu Nyamagouda leading over BJP's Kulkarni Shrikant Subrao by 55433 votes after three rounds in Jamkhandi assembly seat.

JDS' Anitha Kumaraswamy leads over BJP's Chandrashekhar by 8430 votes in 2 rounds in Ramanagar assembly seat. 

The announcement of the bypolls for the Lok Sabha seats came as a surprise to all the three major political parties in the state -- the Congress, BJP and JD(S) -- who questioned the need for the exercise when the general elections are due early next year. The byelections were necessitated after Yeddyurappa (Shivamogga), Sriramalu (Ballari), and C S Puttaraju of JD(S) (Mandya) resigned as MPs following their election to the Karnataka Assembly. Bypolls to Jamkhandi Assembly seat was necessitated due to the death of Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda, while Ramanagara fell vacant after Kumaraswamy gave up the seat, preferring Chennapatna, the other constituency from where he had also won. 

Initial trends show BJP leading in Shimoga and JD(S) in Ramanagara. State Chief Minister's wife Anitha Kumaraswamy contesting from Ramanagara.

Karnataka: Counting of votes is underway for #KarnatakaByElection2018. Visuals from a counting station in Bellary. pic.twitter.com/CDvEBxQNjm

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

An estimated 67 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the bypolls. A total of 1,248 counting staff have been deployed for it.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure to that no untoward incident takes place during the counting of votes, police officials said.

Karnataka: #Visuals of a strong room from Mandya legislative assembly constituency as counting of votes has started for Karnataka bypolls pic.twitter.com/pAvTLLT2gd

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

Counting of votes begins to Shimoga, Bellary and Mandya Lok Sabha seats and Ramanagara and Jamakhandi legislative assembly seats began at 8 am.

#KarnatakaBypolls2018: Counting of votes begins at counting centres in Bellary and Shimoga Lok Sabha constituencies, pic.twitter.com/J9syo6wsRQ

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2018

A total of 31 candidates are in the fray from the five seats. Among the prominent candidates in the fray is Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's wife, Anita Kumaraswamy, who is expected to have a smooth sail in Ramanagara after BJP nominee L Chandrashekhar withdrew from the contest and rejoined the Congress.

In Jamkhandi, Congress candidate Anand Nyamagowda, son of former MLA Siddu Nyamagouda, is pitted against Srikant Kulkarni of the BJP.
In Shivamogga, state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa's son, B Y Raghavendra, is testing his fortunes against another former chief minister S Bangarappa's son, Madhu Bangarappa, of the JDS.
In Ballari, senior BJP leader Sriramulu's sister, J Shantha, is fighting against V S Ugrappa of the Congress, considered an outsider.
In the Vokkaliga bastion of Mandya, JDS' Shivarame Gowda, is pitted against a fresh face in Dr Siddaramaiah, a retired Commercial Tax officer from the BJP.
 

The Lok Sabha by-elections were held to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of its three sitting members -BJP`s Yeddyurappa from Shimoga and Sriramaulu from Bellary and C. Puttaraju of the JD-S from Mandya on being elected to the assembly in the May 12 elections.

The Ramanagara by-poll was held to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Kumaraswamy, who retained the adjacent Channapatna assembly segment after contesting and winning from both the seats in the May 12 state elections.