Karnataka polls: Results of Hubballi-Dharwad announced

Bengaluru, May 16: The poll results of Hubballi-Dharwad (central) Assembly segment were cleared by Election Commission on Tuesday. The poll results were held up by EC over the issue of mock slips.

"As few mock slips weren't cleared from the control unit of the EVM after a mock poll, we (state poll panel) had sought the permission of the Commission to count the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips instead," state's Joint Chief Electoral Officer A.V. Surya Sen said.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Jagadish Shettar was declared the winner from the seat. Afer the results were declared the counting is as follows -BJP won 104, Congress 78 and JD-S 37, while others got three seats.