70% Voting, No Polling in Two & Repolling!

Update: 2018-05-12 14:21 GMT
Election Commission declared 70 percent voting has been recorded in the Karnataka Assembly Polls 2018 by 6 PM on Saturday.

Complaints have been raised over Faulty EVMs and Missing Names at few polling booths. EC decided to conduct re-polling at a booth in Bengaluru's Hebbal due to EVM Malfunctioning.

Voting has been called off in an Assembly Constituency of Sitting MLA following his death. Even polling in Rajarajeswari Nagar was kept on hold after nearly 10,000 voter IDs were seized in an Apartment.

Around 5 crore voters exercised their right to vote to choose their preferred ones from more than 2,600 candidates of various parties in 222 Assembly Constituencies.

BJP and its allies are holding power in 21 out of 29 States currently. If Congress loses Karnataka too, It will become more weaker with power in only two States (Punjab, Mizoram) and 1 UT (Puducherry).
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