03 Sep, 11:22 (IST)

Results on 1918 seats declared for urban local bodies. The Congress has won 729 seats, while the BJP bagged 674 seats. JDU has won on 261 seats.

03 Sep, 11:07 (IST)

Sankeshwar ULB: Out of the 23 municipality seats, Congress has won 11 seats while BJP too manged to gather 11 seats. 

03 Sep, 10:50 (IST)

The Congress is leading on 84 seats, while the BJP is maintaining the lead on 54 seats

03 Sep, 10:22 (IST)

The BJP is Leading on 49 seats in Belagavi ULB, while the Congress is leading on 68 seats. Meanwhile, independent candidates are maintaining a lead on six seats

03 Sep, 10:08 (IST)

JDS has won four seats in Bantwal TMC

03 Sep, 09:50 (IST)

Results have been declared on 43 seats out of 45 seats in Yadgir City Municipal Corporation. Congress has won 21 seats, BJP has managed to win 16 seats.

03 Sep, 09:40 (IST)

Till now results on 54 setas have declared out of 169 ULB seats. The BJP has won 30 seats, while the Congress has bagged 23 seats. The BSP has managed to take one seat

03 Sep, 09:32 (IST)

BJP has won 9 seats out of 10 in the town panchayat Jevargi in Kalaburagi district, while the Congress managed to bag only one seat.

03 Sep, 09:20 (IST)

BJP is leading in Uttara Karnataka

03 Sep, 09:14 (IST)

Hanamanth Itagi of BJP from Ward no 25 of Yadgir CMC

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Kalaburagi, September 2: The counting of votes for the Urban Local Body elections in Karnataka will take place on September 3. The voting for the elections was held on August 31 for 102 urban local bodies across the state. In Karnataka, polling has begun for 102 urban local bodies across the state.

Polling is currently being held in 2,529 wards spread over 29 city municipalities, 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats and in 135 wards of three city corporations. Though the civic election was earlier scheduled to be held in 105 Urban Local Bodies, it has been postponed in three of them -- Somwarpet, Virajpet and Kushalnagar -- due to onset of heavy rains leading to flash floods in Kodagu district, earlier this month.

Kalaburagi, earlier known as Gulbarga has a population of 543,000.Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Gulbarga has an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. The male literacy is 70%, while that of females is 30%.

Kalaburagi has been home to two ex-chief ministers of Karnataka, namely Veerendra Patil (1968–1971, 1988–1990) and Dharam Singh (2004–2006); both belonged to the Indian National Congress party. Mallikarjun Kharge is the present Member of Parliament and was also formerly the Union Minister for Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment.