By IANS,
Bangalore : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won four of Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha constituencies, while the Congress wrested the Mysore seat, according to the results declared by noon Saturday.
According to the election officials, the BJP has retained three seats – Chikkodi, Bijapur (SC) and Bellary (ST) – while it bagged the redrawn Haveri constituency in Malnad region.
The Congress wrested the Mysore parliamentary seat from the BJP, when its candidate A.H. Vishwanath defeated sitting MP C.H. Vijayashankar by a margin of 7,691 votes.
In Chikkodi, BJP nominee Katti Ramesh Vishwanath defeated P.B. Hukkeri of the Congress by 55,049 votes, while in Bijapur (SC), the party’s Ramesh Chandapur Jigajinagi defeated P.K. Rathod of the Congress by 42,404 votes.
In the iron-ore-rich Bellary (ST) constituency, BJP’s lone woman candidate in the state J. Shanta defeated N.Y. Hanumanthappa of the Congress by a slender margin of 2,243 in a close contest.
In Haveri, Udasi Shivkumar Chanabasappa defeated Saleem Ahamed of the Congress by 88,220 votes.