Surprise was the margin of victory, Cong/JDS won by huge margins, BJP "barely" retained Shimoga seat by a margin of about fifty thousands votes given that it had won it by over 3 lakhs votes last time.crams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:40 pmI did some more digging, and it does appear that there were no major surprises. Everyone won in their stronghold. Only in Bellary, Pappu's local slave won over BJP candidate by a huge margin. But even during the last assembly poll, Cong was pretty strong there.Sachin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:36 pm
Looks like poor preparation from the BJP side. And yes, generally in bye-polls the current winner (ruling government's party) has higher chances of winning. The "seculars" are now quite sure that they will also win all the next state level elections coming up.
So it doesn't seem as rosy as Pappu would like us to believe. But the fact that he does control many constituencies is itself troubling to me. The low-IQ dynastic half-Italian slime ball being hoisted on a nation of billion people is itself puke worthy.
This points to two things, arithmetics worked in Cong/JDS favor and secondly voter sentiments too favored them. Does not bode well for BJP.