Suresh Angadi got emotional and said “People of my segment voted for me whole-heartedly. I gave around one lakh recommendation letters to people from my office. I don’t know whether letters given by me benefited them or not, but they played a major role in this victory. I had become mentally sick and lost confidence because of all controversies. But my people didn’t let me lose” – Quoted from TOI

Suresh Angadi is on overall fourth position in terms of margin of Votes in Karnataka and on 3^rd position in the BJP candidates. Devegouda is on No.1 position with a margin of 291113, followed by Pralhad Joshi of Dharwad 137663, J Swamy, HD Kumarswamy 130275 & Suresh Angadi won by 118687 votes.

Angadi secured highest votes from Arbhavi assembly constituency and lowest from Belgaum north. No doubt Angadi was able to secure his victory by a higher margin than 2004 but the number of votes casted in his favour came down from 2004. Angadi got votes from all assembly constituencies rural and urban both. But Belgaum north got him the least votes but still he managed to get more votes in that particular assembly constituency than his Congress candidate.

Suresh C Angadi of BJP is the Member of Parliament for Belgaum.

He defeated Amarsinh Patil of Congress by 118687 votes. He has won with a good margin which was not anticipated by many.

In 2004 he had won against Amarsinh Patil of INC by a margin of 84753 votes.

It seems my blogs exit poll was correct and my interpretation was a bit wrong. BJP’s Suresh Angadi is doing very well in fact the margin of votes will then be highest I guess. 

BJP’s Suresh Angadi has been leading from round 1 and he is all set to be MP of Belgaum again.

He is leading by 62898 votes.

Belgaum-Angadi Leading by 51000 Votes.

Amarsinh Patil of INC is in 2nd position

BJP leading by 43000 votes at 9.40 am

 The DC J Ravishankar, SP Sonia Narang  visited GIT, the place where counting will take place on 16^th and took a review of the arrangements made.

GIT inspection

Press meet earlier at DC office

GIT is all set for the counting and the counting might get over by 1pm.  

Photo: Prakash

An exit poll was conducted online by this website on the voting day.

BJP’s Suresh Angadi has 67% votes, Amarsinh Patil 24%, A B Patil 5%, Bhavi Kasturi 1%, VIJAYKUMAR UPADYA 1% & ASHOK HANAJI 2%.

To be frank I don’t agree by this exit poll. See the evidences in the recent poll that happened. The polling was quite subdued and the Marathi manoos this time voted in very small number and this is a big hit to BJP and the Minorities and others have voted on earlier lines which means Congress and JD S will gain in this circumstance. The sample size who voted in this exit poll were computer literate and mostly youngsters which cannot be taken for granted as the exit poll for the entire constituency.But to me and news pouring in of other exit polls is BJP will not do good in Mumbai Karnataka i.e. Belgaum Chikodi and Karwar. The difference of margin would be 15 to 20 thousand or even less.

The notable factor as I have been saying on this blog it’s not easy for BJP to retain this seat. Even though this exit poll shoes you that BJP is in the lead by a good margin it could just be the opposite also.

Politics is a funny game and you can’t predict the JANTA’s vote.

Disclaimer: The results of the exit poll are indicative in nature and the exit poll taken was on a sample of 143 only, which by any means will not represent the whole constituency. The entire poll was voluntary and online which means people who had access to the Internet only participated in the exit poll. 

Whatever may be the result, but this was an earnest effort from my side to have an exit poll in Belgaum (I haven’t heard of exit poll in Belgaum till date done by local media). The margin of error here is Maximum, I did mistakes but this was first chance at this one, Next time it will be perfect. Now will this result hold good in real is to be seen & if it does give me a Thumbs up or a Thumbs down. 

Sample size is not correct as it is too small. All Exit polls take caste as a major consideration, I havent done that either.

 In the 143 how voted in the exit poll 97% were Males and only 3% females

The age group who participated was as follows

No dount this poll shows BJP leading, the thruth could be different so stay tuned.

As the last vote would be cast in the 85 odd constituencies tomorrow at 5pm, the exit poll results conducted by AllAboutBelgaum will be declared.

The EC has given permission to declare the results, as the polling in all stages will be complete by tomorrow. 

The official poll expenditure of candidates has started trickling in. In Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP candidate Suresh Angadi spent more than Rs 17 lakh compared to Rs 17.8 lakh spent by Congress rival Amarsinh Patil but both well within the Rs 25 lakh election commission cap.

The Gogte institute of Technology in Udyambag has been converted into a strong room where all the EVM’s have been stored.

 The college has been closed to common public from the past week. Till 16 may it will be the strong room in which the fate of the candidates is been stored. The college has been sealed from all sides and there is heavy police presence at the venue.

All the candidates are making use of this time to relax themselves after the hectic campaigning for over 20 days. All will be waiting for 16 of May when they will come to know their fate.

After all the hula & hype of many NGO’s asking the people to come out and vote, not many came out yesterday. 

There are 13,71,428 voters in Belgaum Parliamentary constituency in which there 6,93,709 males and 6,77,719 females voters.

Out of it 7,53,533 exercised their franchise, 4,05,516 were males and  3,48,017  were females.

Belgaum north Assembly constituency recorded the least voting of 45.67%.  Belgaum south Assembly constituency recorded polling of 46.54%.  Belgaum rural Assembly constituency recorded 54.89% voting.  

 The polling passed of peacefully.

  The low voter turnout should give sleepless nights to BJP candidate.