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.
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Kalaburagi Urban Local Body Election 2018 Results Live News Updates: Results on 1918 ULB Seats Declared; Congress Wins 729 Seats, BJP Bags 674 Seats
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.
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.Ā
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 onĀ six seats
03 Sep, 09:50 (IST)
Results have been declared on 43 seats out of 45 seats in YadgirĀ 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 declaredĀ 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, 09:14 (IST)
Hanamanth Itagi of BJP from Ward no 25 of Yadgir CMC
03 Sep, 08:50 (IST)
JDS and SDPI won two City Municipal Corporation seats each, while CongressĀ bagged one seat in Ullal
03 Sep, 08:40 (IST)
In panchayat town of Afzalpur inĀ Kalaburagi district, Congress has won ward numbers 1, 9 and 17.
03 Sep, 08:14 (IST)
Congress and Janata Dal SecularĀ (JDS) contested elections separately, but they are likely to opt for an alliance at places where results are hung
03 Sep, 08:06 (IST)
For the first time, NOTA (none of the above) option is being introduced in the ULB polls in Karnataka.Ā
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 (1968ā1971, 1988ā1990) and Dharam Singh (2004ā2006); 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.
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