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Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2013

Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election, 2013
India
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All 224 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka
113 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 70.23%
  Majority party Minority party Third party
  Siddaramaiah1.jpg Kumaraswamy.jpg Jagadish Shettar.jpg
Leader Siddaramaiah H.D.Kumaraswamy Jagadish Shettar
Party INC JD(S) BJP
Leader's seat Varuna Ramanagara Hubli-Dharwad Central
Seats before 80 28 110
Seats won 122 40 40
Seat change Increase42 Increase12 Decrease70

  Fourth party Fifth party
  Yeddyurappa.jpg
Leader B. S. Yeddyurappa B. Sriramulu
Party KJP BSR Congress
Leader's seat Shikaripura Bellary Rural
Seats won 6 4

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Chief Minister before election

Jagadish Shettar
BJP

Elected Chief Minister

Siddaramaiah
INC


Jagadish Shettar
BJP

Siddaramaiah
INC

The Fourteenth legislative assembly election was held on 5 May 2013 to elect members from 223 constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka. Five major political parties contested the election: Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)), B. S. Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) and B. Sriramulu's Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress Party (BSRCP). Though Karnataka has 224 assembly constituencies, elections were held only for 223 seats. The election for the Piriyapatna constituency was postponed to 28 May 2013 due to the death of the BJP candidate for the seat. The voter turnout in the state was 70.23%.

The INC under the leadership of the erstwhile Janata Parivar leader Siddaramaiah won the election with an absolute majority of 122 seats (including the Piriyapatna seat), 9 more than the majority mark of 113. As a result, the INC returned to power on its own after nine years with Siddaramaiah becoming the Chief Minister.

In 2008, the BJP under the leadership of B. S. Yeddyurappa, a powerful Lingayat leader, won 110 seats, emerging as the single largest party. As the party did not have a majority of its own, having not won 113+ seats, it had to form a government with the support of a few independent MLA's. The BJP thus came to power for the first time ever in South India. Yeddyurappa became the Chief Minister of Karnataka.


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