Bengaluru, Sept 3: The results of civic elections in Karnataka will be declared today by the State Election Commission. The counting of votes was scheduled to begin at 8am. A total of 105 urban local bodies were contested across 24 districts of the state. Populace of the poll-bound region can check the the seat-wise results at the official website of the SEC - karsec.gov.in. For live written updates of the results, check here.

In the polls held on Friday, an average voter turnout of 63.2 per cent was recorded. A total of 2,662 wards were up for grabs, spread over 3 city corporations, 23 town panchayat, 29 city municipalities and 53 town municipalities.

Electronic Voting Machines were used for polling in all the wards amid tight security, with about 40,000 personnel deployed across the state to maintain law and order.

A total of 36 lakh voters were registered for exercising their franchise in the ULB wards and 13.33 lakh in the three towns of Mysuru, Shivamogga and Tumakuru.

In all, 8,340 candidates, including 2,306 from the Congress, 2,203 from the Bharatiya Janata Party and 1,397 from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) are in the fray for the ULBs, while 814 contested from the city corporations, including 135 from Congress, 130 from BJP and 129 from JD-S.

In the 2013 ULB elections held in 4,976 seats, the Congress had won 1,960 seats, while BJP and JD-S had won 905 seats each, while independents bagged the remaining 1,206 seats.

(With agency inputs)

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