
Karnataka Assembly Polls 2018: HD Deve Gowda could be the king-maker in the elections.
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Several opinion polls suggest no party will win a clear majority
There are 224 seats in all. To win, a party must get 113
HD Deve Gowda says his party JD(S) will desist from supporting BJP
Karnataka votes on May 12. Results will be declared three days later. The Congress now holds just four states. If it loses Karnataka, party morale will crash ahead of the national election.

BS Yeddyurappa (second left) is the BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate for the Karnataka assembly elections.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is seen as having far more autonomy in the running of his campaign than provided to Mr Yeddyurappa by the BJP, said, "I am not at all bothered whether (BJP president) Amit Shah comes or Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes and campaigns here."

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah campaigns in Chamundeshwari in Karnataka.
Take a look at the map below. The Lingayats, concentrated in North and Central Karnataka, decide 62 seats. The Scheduled Castes and Tribes, domination the east, influence an equal number. Coastal Karnataka is a mixture of all cadres and decides 33 seats. Muslims power the outcome of 24 seats.

Karnataka assembly elections 2018: Regions and caste.
Mr Siddaramaiah left Mr Gowda's JDS for the Congress in 2005. Mr Kumaraswamy , who is Mr Gowda's son, was then the Chief Minister of a coalition government with the BJP, a move which so upset his father that he fell sick.
"His father's health is important to him," Mr Gowda said, when asked if, given a chance, Mr Kumaraswamy would return to a BJP team.
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