Karnataka results: No celebration yet for Cong

Updated: Monday, March 11, 2013, 19:56 [IST]

Bangalore, March 11: The Congress today was heading for a big win in Karnataka urban local bodies. But the real story is of routing of breakaway groups of the BJP like KJP and BSR Congress. Also, the BJP can still recover from the lost battle.

The polls have generated so much interest that it was trending in top ten on Twitter.

Initial trends show that the Congress was leading in urban polls, while the Bharatiya Janata Party was finding the going tough, often billed as semi-final before the final polls for the assembly in the May. And the results stayed that way.

However, one must remember that only about 86 lakh voters went to the polls (turnout was 70 percent) and the state has nearly 4.18 crore registered voters, who will participate in the assembly elections. There are 16 lakh new and young voters, who could swing either way.

Today's results point to a hung assembly if the Congress sits like a smiling Buddha and basks in the glory of this win, and the BJP gives up too early.

The BJP can gain from this poll outcome if it starts corrections in its poll strategy. The party with a cadre at grassroots can still recover as the urban local poll results are negative vote (against BJP misrule) and not a whole hearted support for the Congress.

The Congress has failed to project a leader and still does not have a coherent election plan. It also lacks committed workers who can galvanise lost voter base. the party is know to depend on hired crowd and the ruling BJP, which is aware of such games, can stall the Congress game plan.

However, BS Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) has put up a dismal performance, even in Shimoga. Similar was the fate of the Bellary brothers, who had launched the BSR Congress. They have been routed in their stronghold.

Final results: The Congress managed to win 1960 seats, the BJP got 906 and the JDS has 905 seats in its kitty. The KJP got 274 and the BSR Congress could not even touch three figure mark. Its tally was 86. The independents were in huge numbers at 777.

In the last elections to ULBs in 2007, out of the total 5007 wards, the Congress had come first winning 1606, followed by JDS 1502 and the BJP 1180.

Sl. No.	District Name	Total Seats	Declared Seats	BJP	INC	JDS	KJP	BSR	Independents	Others
1	Bangalore Urban	23	23	9	6	5	0	0	3	0
2	Bangalore Rural	123	123	18	48	41	0	0	16	0
3	Ramanagaram	112	112	2	65	40	0	1	4	0
4	Chitradurga	142	142	4	49	30	14	13	32	0
5	Davanagere	149	149	23	85	15	8	6	11	0
6	Kolar	166	166	21	46	58	1	0	34	4
7	Chikkaballapur	146	145	7	47	48	5	1	31	0
8	Shimoga	176	176	24	64	40	34	1	12	1
9	Tumkur	234	234	17	77	93	20	1	26	0
10	Mysore	204	204	19	90	69	6	1	17	2
11	Chamarajanagar	109	109	11	56	3	19	2	11	7
12	Chikkamagaluru	148	148	53	57	14	5	0	19	0
13	Dakshina Kannada	189	189	63	108	6	0	0	4	6
14	Dakshina Kannada	95	95	43	49	0	0	0	1	0
15	Hassan	180	180	3	55	90	10	0	22	0
16	Mandya	161	161	9	57	62	0	1	25	7
17	Kodagu	40	40	19	8	11	0	0	2	0
18	Belgaum	392	392	104	59	6	2	0	221	0
19	Bijapura	150	150	33	44	25	4	0	43	0
20	Bagalkote	290	267	96	121	18	4	6	22	0
21	Dharwad	156	156	50	64	29	5	3	5	0
22	Gadag	203	203	61	99	8	3	20	11	0
23	Haveri	193	193	41	78	5	51	3	15	0
24	Uttara Kannada	239	239	50	107	41	1	3	37	0
25	Bellary	246	246	18	137	6	0	0	85	0
26	Bidar	149	149	22	53	36	23	6	9	0
27	Gulbarga	213	213	28	82	36	46	1	18	2
28	Yadgir	98	98	5	50	12	7	4	20	0
29	Raichur	154	154	28	63	34	6	10	13	0
30	Koppal	96	96	25	36	25	0	3	7	0
	Totals :	4976	4952	906	1960	906	274	86	776	29