Counting will begin at 8 am Bypolls was a prestige issue for both Congress and BJP The results will certainly impact the next year’s Assembly polls

Both Congress and BJP had made it a prestige issue and did a hectic campaigning.

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The bypolls were necessitated in Gundlupet after the sitting MLA, and minister HS Mahadeva Prasad passed away, and in Nanjangud, veteran Congress leader V Srinivas Prasad defected to BJP.

Counting of votes will begin at 8 am, and the final result is expected to be out by 11 am. In Nanjangud, counting will be held at JSS College and at St John's School in Gundlupet.