Karnataka election result 2018: Counting to begin at 8 am; 10 highlights

BJP is making an all-out bid to oust the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka and is looking to come back to power in the state with B S Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate

Counting of votes will be taken up today for the Karnataka Assembly elections 2018, which pollsters have said would likely go down to the wire, with a neck-and-neck race between the state's ruling Congress and challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mixed predictions by exit polls have further increased curiosity about the Karnataka election results. Some have said the Congress, led by its chief ministerial candidate Siddaramaiah, will emerge as the single largest party, while some have given the single largest party tag to the BJP. Most exit polls have predicted that former prime minister H D Deve Gowda led-Janata Dal(Secular)