Congress party has won the Kittur Karnataka region from BJP, securing 33 out of 50 seats and retained its stronghold of Kalyan Karnataka with 26 out of 41 seats. In this particular election, the BJP defector Jagdish Shettar lost the assembly election to BJP's Mahesh Tenginakai but Congress' Laxman Savadi emerged as a winner in the Athani seat with a huge margin.
