{"id":37710,"date":"2023-05-10T05:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=37710"},"modified":"2023-05-10T05:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:18:01","slug":"karnataka-assembly-elections-7-89-voter-turnout-by-9-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/karnataka-assembly-elections-7-89-voter-turnout-by-9-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Assembly Elections: 7.89% Voter Turnout by 9 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0New Delhi, \u00a0May 10 : Karnataka commenced its Assembly elections on Wednesday with voting starting at 7 am. According to the Election Commission, the approximate voter turnout stood at 7.83% by 9 am. A total of 2,615 candidates across various parties are contesting in the polls, which will determine their electoral fates. The district of Dakshina Kannada witnessed the highest voter turnout at 12.47% during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The voting is taking place for 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Central recorded a voter turnout of 7.89%, BBMP (North) at 7.55%, BBMP (South) at 8.22%, Bagalkot at 8.52%, Bangalore Rural at 7.72%, Bangalore Urban at 9.11%, Belgaum at 7.47%, and Bellary at 8.84% till 9 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These assembly elections are of significant importance for the ruling BJP, as they aim to secure another term in power, and for the Congress, as they seek a resurgence in electoral fortunes. Prominent leaders such as Union Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai, State Minister K Sudhakar, and Congress State President DK Shivakumar were among the early voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0New Delhi, \u00a0May 10 : Karnataka commenced its Assembly elections on Wednesday with voting starting at 7 am. According to the Election Commission, the approximate voter turnout stood at 7.83% by 9 am. A total of 2,615 candidates across various parties are contesting in the polls, which will determine their electoral fates. The district of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1032,1322,1033],"class_list":{"0":"post-37710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-earlypostdaily","10":"tag-karnataka-assembly-elections","11":"tag-latestnews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37712,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710\/revisions\/37712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}