The counting of votes for 28 Lok Sabha seats is Karnataka along with other 514 seats, spread across 29 states and seven union territories, began at 8 am on Thursday. The main contest in the state is between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) alliance. However, the exit polls which were released on May 19 after the voting for the seventh and final phase was concluded predicted that the BJP will come to power in the state with majority.


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While election trends will start pouring in within a few minutes, the final result can be delayed by up to five hours this time around after the Supreme Court instructed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to also consider the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips tally.


Here are the latest trends of the Lok Sabha election result from Karnataka:


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's D.V. Sadananda Gowda leading by 1,40,427 votes from Bangalore North. Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing by 45, 011 votes in Mandya against Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: At 2:32 pm, BJP is leading in 24 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka while Congress is ahead in three seats. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge and JD (S)'s Nikhil Kumaraswamy are currently trailing from Gulbarga and Mandya, respectively. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's D.V. Sadananda Gowda is leading by a margin of 98,183 votes in Bangalore North against Congress' Krishna Byregowda.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP is currently leading in 24 seats, while Congress is ahead in two Lok Sabha constituencies. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: JD (S) Nikhil Kumaraswamy continues to trail in Mandya by 11,478 votes. Anantkumar Hegde of BJP is leading in Uttara Kannada by over three lakh votes. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Congress candidate DK Suresh is leading from Bangalore rural, Tejasvi Surya of BJP is leading from Bangalore South constituency and BJP's Jigajinagi Ramesh Chandappa is ahead from Bijapur with a huge margin of 1,99,395 votes. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP continues to lead from 23 seats in Karnataka, while Congress is leading from three Lok Sabha constituencies. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: JD (S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing from Mandya while his grandfather H. D. Devegowda is also behind by 18, 447 votes in Tumkur against G. S. Basavaraj. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Angadi Suresh Channabasappa of BJP is leading in Belgaum constituency by 19, 610 votes. Y. Devendrappa of the saffron party is leading from Bellary against V. S.Ugrappa of Congress. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's Gaddigoudar Parvatagouda Chandanagouda is leading from Bagalkot, while Congress' Rizwan Arshad is ahead from Bangalore central.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: D.V. Sadananda Gowda of BJP continues to lead from Bangalore North by 21,457 votes against Congress' Krishna Byregowda.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's Anantkumar Hegde is leading by over two lakh votes Uttara Kannada against Anand Asnotikar of Janata Dal (Secular).


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Congress Mallikarjun Kharge is trailing in Gulbarga by 21,663 votes against BJP's Dr. Umesh G Jadhav. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: JD (S)'s Nikhil Kumaraswamy is trailing in Mandya by a margin of 1,296 seats against Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP is leading from 23 seats, Congress from three, Janata Dal (Secular) in one seat. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's D.V. Sadananda Gowda surges ahead in Bangalore North with a lead of 9,843 votes.


# Lok Sabha election result 2019: H. D. Devegowda of Janata Dal (Secular) is trailing from Tumkur constituency by 8,422 votes against G. S. Basavaraj of BJP.  


# Lok Sabha election result 2019: BJP's Anantkumar Hegde is leading by approximately 95,000 votes in Uttara Kannada. 


# Lok Sabha election result 2019: Karnataka Chief Minister H.D Kumaraswamy's son and Janata Dal (Secular) Nikhil Kumaraswamy is leading from Mandya by 2,170 votes. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Karadi Sanganna Amarappa of BJP is leading from Koppal by 26,015 votes against Congress' K. Rajashekar Basavaraj Hitnal. 


# Lok Sabha Election Result 2019:  Ashwathnarayangowda of BJP is leading from Bangalore Rural against Congress' DK Suresh. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's D.V. Sadananda Gowda is currently trailing from Bangalore North seat against Congress' Krishna Byregowda.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's P.C Mohan leading from Bangalore Central against Congress' Rizwan Arshad. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP candidate Bhagwanth Khuba is currently leading from Bidar seat against Eshwar B. Khandre of Congress. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: Tejasvi Surya of BJP is leading from Bangalore South constituency by 14,366 votes against Congress' B.K Hariprasad.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's P. C. Mohan is leading from Bangalore central against Rizwan Arshad of the Indian National Congress. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's D.V. Sadananda Gowda is leading with 1,977 votes from Bangalore North against Congress' Krishna Byregowda.


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP candidate Y. Devendrappa is leading from Bellary constituency against V. S. Ugrappa of Congress. 


# Lok Sabha Election result 2019: BJP's Umesh Jadhav, who is contesting against Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge from Kalaburagi in Karnataka, is confident about Narendra Modi becoming the Prime Minister once again.