Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, state Congress president D K Shivakumar, and former CM Siddaramaiah are among the key leaders who were declared victorious by the Election Commission in the Karnataka assembly polls for which counting of votes was taken up on Saturday.
This is how the bigwigs in Karnataka fared.
Former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who contested on a Congress ticket after the BJP denied him a nomination, was defeated in the Hubballi-Dharwad (Central) seat by a margin of 34,289 votes. The BJP's Mahesh Tenginakai, a debutant in electoral politics, defeated Shettar who is a six-time MLA.
Laxman Savadi, who also joined the Congress after leaving the BJP, won the Athani constituency by 76,122 votes.
Karnataka chief minister Basavraj Bommai won his Shiggaon seat by 35,978 votes.
Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah won the Varuna constituency by over 46,000 votes.
Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar won Kanakapura assembly constituency by a massive margin of over 1.22 lakh votes.
Janata Dal-Secular leader and two-time chief minister H D Kumaraswamy won the Channapatna seat for the sixth time. Kumaraswamy received 96,592 votes. However, his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy lost the Ramanagaram seat to Congress' H A Iqbal Hussain by over 10,000 votes.
Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank Kharge defeated BJP's Manikanta Rathod in Chittapur by 13,640 votes.
BJP national general secretary and four-time Karnataka legislator C T Ravi lost the Chikmagalur seat to former party colleague H D Thammaiah, who crossed over to the Congress in February, by a margin of 5,926 votes.
Former Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Vijayendra of BJP won the Shikaripura seat by 11,008 votes.
Congress' Dinesh Gundu Rao wins from Gandhi Nagar by a margin of 105 votes.
Former Deputy CM and Congress leader G Parameshwara defeated JD-S' P R Sudhakar Lal by 14,347 votes in Koratagere.
