13 Jun, 12:01 (IST)

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13 Jun, 11:30 (IST)

All rounds of counting are over and Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy has won the Jayanagar Election 2018. BJP's BN Prahlad is second. Congress - 54045BJP - 50270The live updates are now over. Read complete result report here.Thank you for being with us. For more latest news and updates, log on to Latestly.com

13 Jun, 11:23 (IST)

Congress workers celebrate outside counting centre in Bengaluru after party candidate Sowmya Reddy leads over BJP's BN Prahlad in Jayanagar Assembly constituency.

13 Jun, 11:13 (IST)

Fourteen rounds of counting are over for Jayanagar Election 2018. Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy continues to lead.Congress - 51192BJP - 44292

13 Jun, 11:01 (IST)

Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy continues to lead in Jayanagar Election 2018 after 13 rounds of counting even as the margin of lead has narrowed down in the past three rounds. Here is the picture after 13 rounds of counting:Congress - 48456BJP - 39919

13 Jun, 10:53 (IST)

After 12 rounds of counting, even as Sowmya Reddy of Congress continues to lead in Jayanagar Election 2018, he lead margin has slipped to over 10,000 votes. This is the picture after 12 rounds of counting in Karnataka:Congress 45975BJP 35798

13 Jun, 10:51 (IST)

Congress supporters have begun celebrating outside the counting centre in Jayanagar as party candidate Sowmya Reddy continues to lead after 11 rounds of counting.

13 Jun, 10:46 (IST)

Eleven rounds of counting are complete for Jayanagar Election 2018. Sowmya Reddy of Congress is leading by about 13,000 votes against BJP's BN Prahlad. Counting is underway in Karnataka.

Congress 43476

BJP 30695 

13 Jun, 10:34 (IST)

Ten rounds of counting are complete for Jayanagar Election 2018. Sowmya Reddy of Congress is leading by 14,949 votes against BJP's BN Prahlad. Counting is underway in Karnataka.Congress - 40677BJP - 25728 Congress leading by 14949 votes.

13 Jun, 10:25 (IST)

Nine rounds of counting are over for Jayanagar Election 2018. Sowmya Reddy of Congress is now leading by a huge margin of over 15,000 votes as BJP's BN Prahlad is a distant second. Here is what the position is after 9 rounds of counting on the Jayanagar seat of Karnataka Assembly:Congress - 37288BJP - 21943

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Jayanagar Assembly Election 2018 Result Update: Counting of votes for the Jayanagar Assembly Election 2018 in Karnataka is taking place on Wednesday, June 13. The Jayanagar election result is expected to be declared by this afternoon. Voting for the Jayanagar seat of Karnataka Assembly took place on Friday, June 11 and a voter turnout of 55 per cent was recorded.

The election on the Jayanagar seat was countermanded following the death of Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) candidate BN Vijayakumar ahead of the Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018. Jayanagar saw a two-way fight between the Congress and the BJP. Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS) withdrew its candidate ahead of the election and announced support to the Congress candidate after the two parties formed a coalition government in the state. A total of 19 candidates were in the fray for the Jayanagar seat.

BJP’s BN Prahlad, brother of Vijaykumar, and senior Congress leader and former minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy were locked in a high-pitch battle in Jayanagar. The campaigning for Jayanagar became ugly when a  photoshopped image of Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy eating non vegetarian food was being circulated on the social media. Reddy clarified that the image was photoshopped and also sent the original image to the fake news busting website Alt News.

Of the over two lakh voters in the constituency, a total of 1,11,689 voters exercised their franchise in Jayanagar.  There were 216 polling booths in seven wards in the constituency, among which five were pink booths. In the 2013 elections, Vijay Kumar won defeating Congress candidate MC Venugopal. Before that, Ramalinga Reddy won four times consecutively. The Congress, which won from the RR Nagar Assembly seat on May 31, hopes to wrest the Jayanagar seat from the BJP, aiming to take its tally to 79.