In the Karnataka assembly elections, 72.67 per cent of voters show up.

In the assembly elections in Karnataka, 72.67 per cent of people who were eligible to vote did so. This is more than in the last elections in 2018. Several pollsters have said that in Karnataka, which is the BJP's southern stronghold, the Congress may have an edge in a hung assembly, and a couple of them have even said that the old party may get a majority on its own.

Late last night, a statement from the Election Commission said that 72.67 per cent of eligible voters had cast votes, excluding mail-in ballots and voting at home.

It said that 85.83 per cent of registered voters in the Chikkaballapur district and 84.98 per cent of registered voters in the Ramanagaram district went to the polls.

The 224 members of the Assembly, for which elections were held on Wednesday, will have their votes counted on May 13.

On Wednesday, the Election Commission (EC) said that voting was mainly peaceful in all 224 Assembly districts in Karnataka and that no re-vote was needed in any of the 58,545 polling places.

In the 2018 Assembly elections in Karnataka, 72.44 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls. The elections resulted in a hung assembly, with the BJP coming out on top with 104 seats, but not enough for a majority.

The BJP, which is riding high on Modi's popularity, wants to break a 38-year poll jinx in which the state has never voted the incumbent party into power. On the other hand, Congress wants a morale-boosting win to give it the space and momentum it needs to become the main opposition party in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.