Key Points
Congress has won Karnataka assembly elections 2023 by the biggest vote share and seats after a period of 34 years..
Political activist Yogendra Yadav said that this election is the biggest victory for any party in Karnataka" after 1989 during Veerendra Patil's regime when the Congress had won 178 seats with a vote share of 43.76 per cent..
The party claimed 136 seats way past the halfway mark of 113, according to the Election Commission's data...
In 1999, the Congress won 132 seats with a vote share of 40.84 per cent, followed by 2013 when the party bagged 122 seats with a vote share of 36.6 per cent, according to the data posted by Yadav on Twitter...
Shortly after the BJP conceded defeat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Congress party for its win in the Karnataka assembly polls and wished the party best in its endeavour to fulfilling people's aspirations..
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