Bengaluru: The polling for 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka concluded on Wednesday.
According to reports, the total voter turnout stood at 65.69% as of 5 PM. EVMs and VVPATs machines are being sealed and secured at polling booths across the state.
Key highlights
- All three major political parties in the state — BJP, Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) — have put in efforts to woo voters, making promises and levelling accusations at each other to secure a majority in the state’s 224-seat Assembly.
- The Lingayat and Vokkaliga voters will play a major factor in the elections. Lingayats comprise 17 per cent of the population and Vokkaligas 11 per cent.
- The voting is held for 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka, with 2,615 candidates in the fray.
- The fate of the candidates will be known on May 13 — day for counting of votes.
- Polling is scheduled across 58,545 polling stations, including auxiliary polling stations.
- According to the Election Commission of India, the majority mark to form the government is 113 seats.
- A total of 42,48,028 new voters have been registered to vote for the assembly elections.
- As many as 5.3 crore general voters are going to cast their vote in 58,545 polling stations in 37,777 locations. Out of which, 11,71,558 are young voters and 12,15,920 are 80+ senior citizen voters. There are also 5,71,281 PwD voters.
- Around 4,00,000 polling personnel are engaged in poll processes.