Mangaluru, May 15, 2018: With the counting of votes polled for the Karnataka Assembly elections underway, there are cheers in the BJP camp as it is all headed to be the single largest party. In Dakshina Kannada district the BJP candidates won in Mangaluru South, Mangaluru North, Moodbidri, Bantwal, Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia. The only Congress candidate won in Dakshina Kannada district is U T Khader from Mangaluru constituency.
Interestingly even DK District in-charge Minister Ramanatha Rai has lost in Bantwal as is J R Lobo in Mangaluru South. In Udupi district, the BJP has won in all five constituencies.
Dakshina Kannada district
Mangaluru South
J R Lobo (Congress) - 70490
Vedavyas Kamath (BJP) - 86545
Srikar Prabhu - 773
Mangaluru North
Mohiuddin Bava(Congress) - 72000
Bharath Shetty - 98648
Muneer Katipalla - 2124
Mangaluru (Ullal)
U T Khader (Congress)- 80813
Santosh Rai Boliyar (BJP)- 61074
K Ashraf - 3692
Nithin Kuttar - 2372
Moodbidri
Abhaychandra Jain (Congress)- 57645
Umanath Kotian (BJP)- 87444
Jeevan Shetty (Jds)- 1845
Ashwin Pereira - 2111
Bantwal
Ramanath Rai (Congress)- 67685
Rajesh Naik (BJP)- 84471
Beltangady
Vasanth Bangera (Congress)-75443
Harish Poonja (BJP)- 98417
Sumathi Hegde - 1012
Puttur
Shakuntala Shetty (Congress) - 70199
Sanjeev Matandoor (BJP)- 89145
Kailas Gowda -1405
Sullia
Dr Raghu (Congress)-69137
S Angara (BJP)- 95205
Raghu (BSP) - 1472
Udupi District
Udupi
Pramod Madhwaraj (Congress)- 72503
Raghupati Bhat (BJP)- 84291
Birthi Gangadhar Bhandary - 1351
Kaup
Vinay Kumar Sorake (Congress)- 39038
Lalaji R Mendon (BJP)- 48014
Anupama Shenoy (BJC) - 880
Kundapur
Rakesh Malli (Congress)- 44771
Halady Srinivas Shetty (BJP)- 98444
Prakash Shetty - 1406
Karkala
Gopal Bhandary (Congress)- 48679
Sunil Kumar (BJP)- 91245
Uday Kumar (BSP) - 1348
Byndoor
Gopal Poojary (Congress)- 53185
Sukumar Shetty (BJP)- 67392
Ravi Shetty - 768