Bangalore City Corporation (BBMP) election result: BJP won by 112 seats

Bangalore City Corporation (BBMP) election result: BJP won by 112 seats

Mangalore Today News Network

Bangalore, April 5: The Bharatiya Janata Party creates history as it sweeps the civic polls for the first time in 54 years. BJP president K S Eshwarappa, expressing happiness over the results, said that the Bangaloreans had given a fitting reply to the Congress and the JD(S), which alleged that the BJP had not taken up development works in the city.

 

Total Seats : 198
Result Announced : 198
BJP: 112
Congress: 64
JDS: 15
Others: 7

 

The BJP has won a neat 112 seats out of 198 in the civic polls in the Greater Bangalore City Corporation as it beat the Congress hands down.

 

The Congress won a struggling 64 wards with the Janata Dal (Secular) taking in 15. The other 7 seats were won by Independents. Out of 198 constituencies, JDS has bagged 15 seats

It is the first time that the BJP has come to power in the civic body since Indian Independence, and has officially ended five decades of Congress dominance.

The state went into polls took on March 28 with about 46 per cent of the city’s 6.6 million voters had turning out to cast their ballots to elect 198 representatives from 1,336 candidates to run the Greater Bangalore City Corporation.

 

BJP unit celebrates at Dakshina Kannad district

As the news of BJP’s victory in BBMP election spreads all over Karnataka, Dakshina Kannada BJP unit gathered at BJP office, Mangalore to celebrate the happiest moment.

 

 

 

 

 

The mood was jubilant and upbeat. The BJP supporters embraced each other and raised the BJP flag. They also chanted pro- slogans of BJP and distributed sweets to express the joy.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, Rajani Duganna, Mayor of Mangalore, Rajendra Kumar, Deputy Mayor of Mangalore,  Roopa D Bangera and others were present on the occaion.

 

Ward	Ward	Winner Name
3	Atturu	Dr Shashikumar- BJP
4	YelahankaSatelliteTown	Muniraju M- BJP
6	Thanisandra	Lalitha Bai MukundaRao- JDS
11	Kuvempu Nagar	Gangamma Mariswamy- BJP
13	Mallasandra	RP Shashi- BJP
17	J P Park	BR Nanjundappa-BJP
19	Sanjaya Nagar	NM Krishnamurthy-BJP
25	Horamavu	Tejasvini Raju- BJP
32	Bairasandra	Gowramma- BJP
33	Manorayanapalya	Fouzia Wazid- Congress
36	Mattikere	Muniswamy Gowda- BJP
37	Yeshwanthpura	Munirathana-Congress
44	Marappana Palya	Lakshmi- JDS
47	Devara Jeevanahalli	R Sampath Raj- Congress
51	Vijnanapura	Sukumar- BJP
57	CV Ramannagar	M Krishna-BJP
67	Nagapura	Harish-BJP
73	Kottegepalya	Venkatesh Babu- BJP
82	Garudachar Playa	Pillappa N- Congress
94	Gandhinagar	Nataraj S- Congress
95	Subhash Naga	T Mallesh- Congress
99	Rajaji Nagar	Krishnappa-BJP
100	Basaveshwara Nagar	H Padmaraj-  BJP
105	Agrahara Dasarahalli	Roopa Devi-BJP
112	Domlur	GeethaSrinivasReddy-BJP
116	Nilasandra	Lokesh- Congress
120	Cottonpet	Vasanth Kumari-BJP
123	Vijayanagar	Ravindra H-BJP
127	Mudalapalya	Shanthakumari-BJP
128	Nagarabhavi	Umesh Shetty K-BJP
132	Attiguppe	K Doddanna-Congress
133	Hampi Nagar	Chandrasekharaiah-BJP
139	K R Market	Ashwath-JDS
140	Chamrajapet	BV Ganesh- BJP
145	Hombegowda Nagara	D Chandrappa- Others
148	Ejipura	PM Saroja- Congress
155	Hanumanth Nagar	K Chandrashekar- Congress
159	Kengeri	Anjanappa- BJP
162	Girinagar	Latha Vijaykumar- BJP
166	Karisandra	Gayathri Venkatesh- BJP
167	Yediyur	NR Ramesh- BJP
170	Jayanagar East	Munisanjeevaiah- Congress
172	Madivala	BN Manjunath Reddy- BJP
175	Bommanahalli	Manjunath Reddy- BJP
182	Padmanabha Nagar	L Srinivas- BJP
197	Vasanthpura	Bhagyamma Devraj- BJP