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Nearly 30% of voters said unemployment was the biggest issue this election compared with just 3% in 2018

In the Lokniti-CSDS survey done during the election campaign, a few questions were asked to measure the response of voters to the new reservation policy announced by the BJP government.

Many commentators and observers of Karnataka politics have pointed out that corruption became a crucial issue for the voters in the Assembly election.

Focusing on local issues and stitching together a broad social coalition that lent it huge support helped the party win a comfortable majority in the State

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Between the failed experiment of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the successful one of the Congress, Karnataka voters have imparted important lessons

Though the sample is relatively small, the total number of voters interviewed represent the social reality of the voters of Karnataka

Telangana Congress has 43 lakh digital members and Karnataka 62 lakh despite being double the size

Sasikanth Senthil, a native of Tamil Nadu, who quit the civil services and joined the Congress party in 2019 and was appointed chairperson of the Congress war room in Karnataka, got the better of BJP State president and former IPS officer K. Annamalai in the recently concluded election

Providing a nail-biting finish to the high-pitched Karnataka Assembly elections, Jayanagar constituency, where 16 votes separated the winner and the loser, became a talking point. As many as eight seats were decided by wafer-thin margins of less than 1,000 votes with the Congress and the BJP having five and three…

The confusion among the Veerashiava-Lingayats, especially in Kittur Karnataka region, following the exits of Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi weeks before the elections, is being seen as the precipitating factor for the community’s perceived shift to Congress from BJP.