The Modi wave that swept through Karnataka enabled the BJP to garner over 51 per cent of votes, thereby decimating the Congress and its ally JDS eating into their vote share.
The JDS, the state's lone regional party, that had two Lok Sabha members in the previous Lok Sabha was reduced to just one this time as its vote share declined drastically compared to the 2018 assembly election.
The BJP garnered 51.38 per cent of votes, about 8 per cent more from 2014, according to Election Commission data
Against its previous tally of 17 Lok Sabha seats in 2014, the saffron party won 25 out of the total 28 this time while an independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh backed by it wrested the JDS bastion of Mandya
The JDS had fielded seven candidates in Karnataka but only one candidate, Prajwal Revanna, could win from Hassan constituency, a traditional JDS citadel from where party patriarch and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda had been winning.
Deve Gowda vacated Hassan for his grandson Prajwal and moved to contest from Tumkur, only to be defeated at the hands of BJP candidate GS Basavaraj.
In the just-concluded Lok Sabha election, JDS secured 33.97 lakh votes, which is around 9.67 per cent of the total vote share as against 34.06 lakh votes (about 11.07 per cent of total votes polled in the state) in 2014.
In the 2018 assembly election, the JDS had got 67.26 lakh votes, which was 18.36 per cent of the total votes polled. On the other hand, its rival BJP got 1.32 crore votes, (around 36.22 per cent).
The BJP wave also swamped the Congress, an ally in the Karnataka government headed by Kumaraswamy.
Congress got 1.12 crore votes, which is 31.88 per cent of the total votes polled whereas in 2014, Congress managed to garner 1.26 crore votes, which was 41.15 per cent of the total votes cast.
Both the Congress and JDS had contested the polls together under a seat-sharing arrangement.
Against its tally of nine seats in 2014, it won only one seat of Bengaluru rural this time.
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