Sending out a clear signal for change, Karnataka voters have decimated the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and given the Congress an unambiguous mandate, with 135 seats in the 224-member Legislative Assembly. The acid test for the Congress will now be to choose a Chief Minister, with both Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D.K. Shivakumar publicly jockeying for the post in the run-up to the election.
In the results declared on Saturday for the election held on May 10, the Congress improved its tally from the 80 seats it won in 2018, powering to 135 seats on the back of a robust unified campaign promising free rice, power and income support, and building a case against the BJP based on local issues of corruption and governance.
As it happened | 2023 Karnataka Assembly election results
