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The Bharatiya Janata Party which was defeated in Karnataka assembly election managed to win 16 seats out of 28 in Bengaluru and dominated the winning Congress at Karnataka’s capital.
- May 20, 2023
May 13, 2023 · Caste-based politics has remained a big factor in the Karnataka elections, with political parties trying to manipulate social dynamics at the constituency level to win votes. Here is a list of seats secured by political parties in constituencies dominated by specific communities; Dalit, Lingayat, Muslim, OBC, Tribal, Vokkaliga.
- 1 Party Performance
- 2 The Importance of Sub-Regions
- 3 Local Volatility Is High
- 4 Elections Remain Locally Competitive
- 5 Participation Is High
- 6 Candidates Matter
- Sitting MLAs Get to Re-Run
- A Culture of horse-trading
- India’s Richest Politicians
- It’S All Business
Karnataka elections rarely produce large majorities, particularly since the Bharatiya Janata Party has become an important player in the state. With 135 seats and 43% of the votes, the Congress has won unequivocally with the largest vote share and seat share obtained by any party in Karnataka since 1989. Vote shares over time reveal that despite th...
A map of the results shows how Congress swept across the state. The BJP retained only a few clusters of seats in Coastal Karnataka and in Northern Karnataka. Otherwise, it has lost ground across the map. The map also shows how much terrain the Janata Dal (Secular) has lost. Before this election, it considered the heart of Southern Karnataka its str...
We now look below the sub-regional level to look at another important feature of Karnataka politics: local volatility. From one election to another, many seats keep changing hands. The only regions where parties maintain some strongholds are in the South. The BJP consistently wins in Bangalore and its urban periphery, while the Congress and the Jan...
Even though the Congress’ victory is a sweep, many seats remained locally competitive. Sixty one seats were won with a margin inferior of 5%, which is the standard measure of close contests. The closest margin of course is in Jayanagar, where BJP candidate CK Ramamurthy wrestled the seat by 16 votes on the fourth recount. The BJP in total won 26 of...
Voters have always turned out en masse in Karnataka election, a characteristic shared with its southern neighbours. Participation in 2023 is the highest recorded in Karnataka since 1978. There is enthusiasm for elections. There is however a spatial distribution to turnout. As the map below shows, participation tends to be higher in Southern and Cen...
A sixth key aspect of Karnataka elections is that candidates matter. At a time where power in political parties has become hyper-concentrated, when party high-commands keep shuffling their candidates and when campaigns focus on the leader rather than the party itself, Karnataka stands out with regards to the importance of candidates. The capacity o...
A total of 156 sitting MLAs re-ran and 74 of them were re-elected. Of them, 82 were fielded by the BJP against 46 for Congress. This is a lower number of rerunning incumbents than usual. In previous elections, almost all MLAs got the opportunity to keep their seat. This year, the Congress decided to field a large number of new candidates, while the...
Horse-trading and a culture of political betrayal form a seventh characteristic of Karnataka politics. We have been spared the sad spectacle of resort politics this year, given the size of the Congress’ majority, but government formation in the past has been the object of must horse-trading. This is only the second majority government in Karnataka ...
Another factor that help MLAs to remain in the race is the huge cost of entry into politics in Karnataka. While we know that money is central to politics across India, even in parts of the country in which it did not use to be, Karnataka politicians are among the richest in the country, across parties. In 2023, the average net assets declared by th...
In most states, MLAs hide their actual occupation behind the labels of political or social work. Not in Karnataka. Here, 44% of all MLAs declare some form of business as their occupation. Only 22% declare to be farmers. 9% declare to belong to some liberal profession, mostly law or medical. Those numbers still hide the actual sources of income of p...
May 12, 2023 · As the caste factor and politics gain heat in Karnataka, here's a look at how many seats were dominated by key communities — such as Lingayat, Vokkaligas, Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Muslim — in 2018 state assembly election and which parties gained the most.
- Akriti Anand
On 19 February 2023, BJP leader H.D. Thammaiah joined Congress along with his supporters. [14] On 9 March 2023, BJP MLC Puttanna joined the Congress. [15] Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar quit BJP on 16 April 2023 [16] [17] and joined Congress the next day. [18]
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May 13, 2023 · The Congress party has emerged as the winner in the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, with results on Saturday (May 14) showing a decisive haul of 135 seats in the 224-seat Assembly, comfortably past the majority mark of 113.
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May 15, 2023 · But the results on May 13 showed that Siddaramaiah’s prediction was spot on. With 135 seats and 42.9 per cent of the votes (an almost 5 per cent swing in its favour compared with 2018), the...
