Karnataka Bypoll Results 2024: Congress sweeps all three seats, Bommai and Kumaraswamy sons face defeat

Karnataka Bypoll Results 2024 LIVE: Bypolls for Sandur, Shiggaon, and Channapatna were necessitated, as the seats fell vacant following the election of their respective representatives to Lok Sabha in the May elections.

Karnataka Bypoll Results 2024: The ruling Congress in Karnataka is won all the three constituencies of Channapatna, Shiggaon and Sandur in the Assembly bypolls. Congress candidate E Annapoorna won the Sandur seat by a margin of 9,649 votes. Congress' CP Yogeshwar won from Channapatna by defeating Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy. In Shiggaon constituency, Bharat Bommai, son of former CM Basavaraj Bommai, lost to Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan of the Congress. These by-elections were required after their respective E Tukaram of Congress, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai of BJP, and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy of JD(S) were elected to the Lok Sabha in the May elections. The bypolls witnessed a straight fight between the ruling Congress and BJP in Sandur and Shiggaon segments, while in Channapatna, JD(S), which is part of the NDA alliance, is in contest against the grand old party. A tentative 82 per cent voters turnout in three Assembly segments of Karnataka where bypolls were held on November 13. While Channapatna recorded a record 88.81 per cent voter turnout, it was 80.72 per cent in Shiggaon, and 76.24 per cent in Sandur.