Karnataka bypoll results: Cong-JD(S) bag 4 out of 5 seats, BJP gets Shimoga

Karnataka’s ruling Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress coalition won two assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats in by-election results Tuesday, cheering the Opposition ahead of Diwali as it prepares to fight Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in five state elections this year and Lok Sabha polls in 2018.

The alliance won parliamentary seats in Ballari and Mandya and assembly seats in Jamkhandi and Ramanagara. The BJP won the Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency—its only victory in by-elections held Saturday. 

The BJP lost Ballari, a Lok Sabha seat it held since 2004 and which is the stronghold of controversial mining