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Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: BJP storming to victory again

Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Election Result 2019

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BJP's Nalin Kumar Kateel is set to storm back to victory in Dakshina Kannada. After the initial hours of counting he was leading by close to 1.17 lakh votes over Congress's Mithun M Rai.

The Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Constituency  is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies going to vote in Karnataka. The vote will be cast during the 2nd phase on April 18 and counting will be done on May 23.

It covers the following segments –  Belthangady, Moodabidri, Mangalore City North, Mangalore City South, Mangalore, Bantval, Puttur and Sullia (reserved for members of the Scheduled Caste).

In 2014, the Lok Sabha election saw BJP’s Nalin Kumar Kateel romp home with 1.43 lakh votes, defeating Janardhana Poojary of the Congress. In the year 2009, he won by 40,000 votes beating Janardhana Poojary.

Kateel is back in the fray in 2019 in this saffron bastion and is taking on Congress’ Mithun Rai, who will have his work cut out in trying to wrest this seat.

The seats going to poll in the 2nd phase are Bangalore Central, Bangalore North. Bangalore Rural, Bangalore South, Chamarajanagar, Chikkballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kolar, Mandya, Mysore, Tumkur and Udupi Chikmagalur.

According to the officials, 237 candidates are in the field in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies that will go to polls in the second phase on April 23.

The officials said 45 candidates have withdrawn their nomination on Monday, the last day to withdraw papers for the second phase.

Belgaum with 57 has the maximum number of candidates, while Raichur with five have the lowest in the second phase, as well as in both phases on the whole.

For the first phase of polls on April 18, 241 candidates are in the fray.  In 2014, BJP won 17 seats, Congress won 9 and the JD(S) two.

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