Karnataka Polls LIVE Updates: State CM Bommai Appeals Voters To Contribute In ‘Writing Future Of State’

Karnataka voting for 224-member Legislative Assembly in a single phase began today i.e. on Wednesday after weeks of high-octane and tough campaigns launched against one another.

The polling for the Karnataka Assembly elections has started at 7 am and close at 6 pm.

Polling is scheduled across 58,545 polling stations including auxiliary polling stations and a total of 42,48,028 new voters have been registered to vote for the elections.

According to the reports, almost 5.3 crore voters are going to cast their vote in 58,545 polling stations in 37,777 locations, the Election Commission of India said. Of this, 11,71,558 are young voters and 12,15,920 are 80 senior citizen voters.

Counting of polled votes will be taken up on May 13.