Karnataka Assembly bypoll results 2019, Karnataka bye-election results 2019 today live news updates: Elections were held on December 5 to the Yellapur, Ranebennur, Vijayanagara, Yeshwantpur, Mahalakshmi Layout, Chikkaballapura, KR Puram, Shivajinagar, KR Pete, Hunsur, Athani, Kagwad, Gokak, Hirekerur, and Hoskote seats.
Karnataka bye-election results 2019 LIVE: An elderly Indian man is helped by volunteers as he exits a polling station after casting his vote in Bangalore, India, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo: Aijaz Rahi)
Karnataka Assembly bypoll results 2019 live updates: The fate of the four-month-old B S Yediyurappa government will be decided Monday as results to the bye-elections in 15 constituencies in Karnataka is announced. The party, which needs at least six of the 15 seats to retain majority in the 224-member Assembly, is leading in 10 seats. The Congress and JD(S) are up in two seats each, and an Independent candidate in one, according to initial trends.
Elections were held on December 5 to the Yellapur, Ranebennur, Vijayanagara, Yeshwantpur, Mahalakshmi Layout, Chikkaballapura, KR Puram, Shivajinagar, KR Pete, Hunsur, Athani, Kagwad, Gokak, Hirekerur, and Hoskote seats. This was necessitated after 15 rebel MLAs from the Congress and JD(S) parties defected to the BJP in July in a bid to bring down the coalition government led by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy. The MLAs were subsequently suspended from the House but allowed to contest the bypolls.
Two seats remain vacant in the House — Rajarajeshwari Nagar and Maski — as separate election petitions challenging the results of the 2018 elections are still pending in the Karnataka High Court.
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