Voting for the Karnataka assembly election has over. Voter turnout of 64.5 percent was recorded till 5 pm today, the Election Commission said. The voter turnout till 9 am was 10.6 percent, which climbed to 64.5 percent by 5 pm, an hour before voting ended.
Over 2,600 candidates fought it out in the assembly election in the southern state, where the Congress is in power. Prominent candidates are Congress’s Siddaramaiah and BJP’s BS Yeddyurappa, among others.
33 years time of Karnataka, No party has been re-elected for a straight second term in the state. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of the Congress is seeking a chance to win another term, while the BJP led by BS Yeddyurappa has mounted a frontal assault to take the state from the Congress’s hold.
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Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi ran a high-decibel campaign ahead of the election. The BJP orchestrated its full arsenal of “star campaigners” including over two dozen central ministers and chief ministers.
The Congress also deployed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi to boost its campaign. According to the Election Commission, some five crore people were eligible to vote in the Karnataka assembly election.
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