Bangalore South Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 Live Updates: With the counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections underway, the results for one of the biggest elections in the world are finally being declared.
Over seven thousand candidates are in the electoral fray to gain the mandate of over 900 million eligible voters across 543 constituencies spread across 28 states and 9 union territories. The voting for these parliamentary elections were held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Now, it is time for the results.
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Live Updates of Bangalore South Lok Sabha Election Results 2024
The polling for Bangalore South was held in Phase 2 on 26 April.
The key candidates for the 2024 General Elections in Bangalore South are Tejasvi Surya (BJP) and Sowmya Reddy (Congress).
The high-profile Bangalore South parliamentary constituency has been held by the BJP since 1991. Senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar represented the seat from 1996 until his death in 2018. This time, BJP's incumbent MP Tejasvi Surya is being challenged by Congress' Soumya Reddy, making it a contest between two young guns. Historically, Bengalureans register low voter turnouts.
As per the latest trends of counting of votes for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Tejasvi Surya has won Bangalore South seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bangalore South seat was won by BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya, while Congress candidate B.K.Hariprasad had come in second place.
In 2014's General Elections, Bangalore South constituency was won by BJP candidate Ananth Kumar and Congress candidate Nandan Nilekani was the runner-up.
Assembly seats that fall under Bangalore South parliamentary constituency include Govindraj Nagar, Vijay Nagar, Chickpet, Basavanagudi, Padmanaba Nagar, B.T.M.Layout, Jayanagar, Bommanahalli.
Bangalore South is one of the Lok Sabha seats of Karnataka.
Karnataka Lok Sabha Elections 2024
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the 28 seats of Karnataka went to polls in phases two and three on 26 April and 7 May, respectively. The state recorded a voter turnout of approximately 68% across the two phases.
Karnataka's ruling party Congress is contesting alone in all the 28 seats, while NDA allies BJP and JD(S) have made a seat-sharing agreement according to which BJP is contesting in 25 seats and JD(S) on the remaining three seats.
Being BJP's only stronghold in South, Karnataka gave the saffron party a massive mandate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. They won 25 seats. Congress, JD(S), and an independent candidate could win just one seat each.
While in the previous Lok Sabha elections of 2014, BJP won seventeen seats in Karnataka, Congress won nine seats, and JD(S) could manage to win just two seats.