Karnataka Election Result 2023: How Congress, BJP, JDS Fared Region Wise In State

Karnataka Election Result 2023: The Congress secured an impressive win in the southern state which was the sole bastion of the BJP in South India. Here's how the parties performed region-wise.

Karnataka Election Result 2023: The Congress registered a massive win in Karnataka as the counting of votes for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls took place on Saturday. With this, the BJP lost its sole bastion in South India while the JD(S) failed to become a kingmaker in the state. Now, eyes are on the Congress legislative party meeting where the newly-elected MLAs will decide on the Chief Minister's name as Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar and former chief minister Siddaramaiah are regarded to be the top contenders for the post.

Karnataka has 224 constituencies spanning six regions -- Bengaluru, Central, Coastal, Hyderabad-Karnataka, Mumbai-Karnataka, and Southern Karnataka or Old Mysore region. Mumbai-Karnataka and Southern Karnataka are the largest regions of the state and consist of 50 and 51 Assembly seats respectively.

Here is the region-wise breakdown of the Karnataka Election Result 2023: 

Karnataka Regions	BJP Seats	Congress Seats	JD(S) Seats
Greater Bengaluru Region	14	17	1
Old Mysore Region	6	37	14
Central Karnataka Region	7	24	3
Coastal Karnataka Region	14	6	1
Hyderabad-Karnataka Region	10	16	3
Mumbai-Karnataka Region	17	31	2

ABP-CVOTER Exit Poll

Greater Bengaluru Region Exit Poll

The ABP-CVoter exit polls projected the BJP to win 15-19 seats and garner a 45 per cent vote share in the Greater Bengaluru region, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive three-hour roadshow spanning 10 km last week. The Congress was expected to get anywhere between 11-15 seats with a vote share of 39 per cent.

Old Mysore Region Exit Poll

The Congress was projected to get the maximum seats in the Old Mysore region, the base of the Vokkaligas, winning 28-32 seats of the total 55 seats. The party was estimated to get a vote share of 38 per cent, as per the exit polls. Congress state president DK Shivakumar is from this region and also belongs to the Vokkaliga community. He won his Kanakapura seat with over 1 lakh votes.

JD(S) was expected to come second, winning 19-23 seats. Former Prime Minister and also former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Devegowda hails from this community and from this region. Vokkaligas have been consistently and solidly backing JD(S).

The exit poll predicted the BJP to fare poorly here and projected it to win 0-4 seats. It won nine seats in the last polls.

Central Karnataka Region Exit Poll

In the central Karnataka region, the ABP-CVoter exit polls predicted that Congress will win 18-22 seats with a vote share of 43.9 per cent. The BJP was expected to win anywhere between 12-16 seats and garner 39.2 per cent of votes. In the 2018 election, BJP won 24 out of 35 assembly seats with a 43 per cent vote share. 

Coastal Karnataka Region Exit Poll

Coastal Karnataka is the smallest region in the state, comprising 21 Assembly seats. In the last Assembly election in 2018, the BJP received 51 per cent votes and won 18 seats in this region. This time, the saffron party was expected to win 15-19 seats, as per exit polls. The Congress was projected to come second with 2-6 seats in its kitty.

Hyderabad-Karnataka Region Exit Poll

The exit polls gave BJP 11-15 seats in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region with a vote share of 37.5 per cent. Congress was projected to edge BJP here and get 13-17 seats with a vote share of 43.6 per cent. In the last polls, BJP and Congress secured 12 and 15 seats respectively.

Mumbai-Karnataka Region Exit Poll

As per the ABP-CVoter exit poll, Congress was expected to bag 22-26 seats in the Mumbai-Karnataka region, up from the 17 it won in 2018. On the other hand, BJP, which secured 30 seats in this region in 2018, was projected to see a dip in its tally. The saffron party could get 24-28 seats with a vote share of 43.4 per cent, the exit poll results said.

[Current survey findings and projections are based on CVoter Pre Poll personal interviews (Face to Face) conducted among 18+ adults statewide, all confirmed voters. The data is weighted to the known demographic profile of the states. Sometimes the table figures do not sum to 100 due to the effects of rounding. Our final data file has Socio-Economic profile within +/- 1% of the Demographic profile of the State. We believe this will give the closest possible trends. The sample spread is across all Assembly segments in the poll bound state. MoE is +/- 3% at macro level and +/- 5% at micro level VOTE SHARE projection with 95% confidence interval.]