With these results, BJP's strength in the 75-member 'Upper House' has gone up from 32 to 37, while the Congress' tally declined from 29 to 26, and the JD(S)' numbers came down from 12 to 10.
The BJP bagged 11 out of the 25 Karnataka Legislative Council seats whose election results came out Tuesday, leaving the ruling party with just one short of a simple majority in the upper house in what was a neck-to-neck fight that saw the Congress also finishing with 11. The halfway mark in the 75-member Legislative Council is 38. The BJP now stands at 37. The JD(S),
Bengaluru: The ruling BJP on Tuesday fell one seat short of gaining a simple majority in the Karnataka Legislative Council. The party bagged 11 of the 25 seats,.