The counting of votes for civic polls conducted on 105 Urban Local Bodies (ULB) of Karnataka has begun. The State Election Commission (SEC) will declare all the results of civic polls conducted in 105 Urban Local Bodies of Karnataka by today in the evening. Elections in the 105 ULBs were conducted on Friday. The total voter turnout recorded was 63.2 percent being. The civic bodies, spread across 24 districts, include 3 city corporations, 23 town panchayat, 29 city municipalities and 53 town municipalities. In all, a total of 2,662 wards were up for grabs.

For the safe and smooth conduct of polls, 40,000 security personnel were deployed in the 24 districts where the poll-bound ULBs were located. The total electorate strength was 49.33 lakh, out of which 13.33 lakh were to vote in the three city corporations -- Mysuru, Shivamogga and Tumakuru.

For district wise ULB result check here

For Town Municipality Corporation result check here

For City Municipality Corporation result check here

As per the SEC data, a total of 8,420 candidates were in the fray for the ULBs sans the city corporations. A total of 2,306 candidates were from the Congress, followed by 2,203 from the Bharatiya Janata Party and 1,397 from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S). Meanwhile, 814 candidates were contesting for the municipal corporations of Mysuru, Shivamogga and Tumakuru. Notably, 135 aspirants were from the Congress, 130 from the BJP and 129 from the JD(S).

The last elections for 4,976 ULB seats was held in 2013. The Congress had then emerged as the single largest party winning 1,960 seats, whereas, the BJP and JD(S) had bagged 905 each. Remaining wards were won by the Independents.

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