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Pakistan election: Nawaz Sharif 'set for victory' -
Lyse Doucet, BBC
Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is celebrating with his supporters, amid early signs that his party will be the largest after parliamentary elections. Media projections based on partial results suggest a big lead for Mr Sharif's Muslim League, and he has already claimed victory. The election should lead to the country's first transition from one elected government to another. The turnout was huge but the poll was marred by violence. In Karachi, the Pakistan Taliban said they planted a bomb which killed 11 people and wounded 40 others.
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The road to 272 -
Minhaz Merchant, Economic Times
The 2014 general election will mark 30 years since a political party won a clear majority of 272 seats on its own in the Lok Sabha. Rajiv Gandhi achieved that for the Congress with over 400 seats in 1984. Since then, in 1989, 1991, 1996 and the four general elections that followed, no party has crossed 272 seats in parliament. For 2014, most parties’ ambitions are modest. The Congress thinks 140 Lok Sabha seats will be enough to stitch together a “secular” UPA-3 coalition. The BJP reckons it needs 180 seats to do the same for NDA-3.
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Pakistan's historic ballot -
Rana Banerji, Times of India
Tomorrow's election will signify a strengthening of the democratic process in Pakistan, with a popu-larly elected government completing its full term for the first time, and a constitutionally prescribed transition taking place through caretaker-supervised polls. Accordingly, 272 out of the 342 seats in Pakistan's National Assembly will be elected under the first-past-the-post system. Of these, 148 are from Punjab, 61 from Sindh, 35 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP — previously North-West Frontier Province)...
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Karnataka results analysis: BJP’s mistake was removing Yeddy from Delhi -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
The real issue thrown up by the Karnataka election results is one of leadership and governance. The Congress won because the BJP could not solve the issue of its state leadership. Let’s be clear: this is not about whether BS Yeddyurappa should have been kept back or if the party was right in removing him. The issue is who decides this? Did the Karnataka BJP legislative party decide this or the BJP High Command sitting in the rarefied atmosphere of Delhi?
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Karnataka election results: Congress wins, BJP suffers humiliating defeat -
LensOnNews
BJP on Wednesday suffered a humiliating defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections with the Congress wresting power after a gap of seven years. Hit by the exit of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and the image of corruption during its tenure in the first government in the south, the party has won 16 seats and was leading in just 23 seats in the 224-member Assembly. JD(S) and BJP were involved in a close race to wrest the main opposition status.
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Malaysia vote: PM Najib Razak's Barisan Nasional wins -
BBC
Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in the country's election, extending its 56-year rule. The Election Commission said Prime Minister Najib Razak's Barisan Nasional (BN; National Front) coalition won 133 of the 222 in parliamentary seats - its worst-ever election performance. The opposition won 89 seats, up from 82, in Sunday's election. Defeated opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim accused the ruling coalition of widespread fraud.
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Exit polls predict a Congress victory in Karnataka -
Karthik Shashidhar, Mint
The Congress party is expected to win the assembly elections in Karnataka with an average 37% vote share, according to estimates by a majority of the exit polls. Election to the 224-seat state assembly was held on Sunday. An estimated 69% of 43.5 million voters exercised their franchise. There is a similar consensus among exit polls in terms of the vote share for other major parties, with the Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) estimated to win 20-22% of the total votes and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 23-27% of the share.
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Anwar is on song in Malaysia -
MJ Akbar, Sunday Guardian
In Malaysia, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's campaign is on song, sometimes literally so. He does tend to remind his massive rallies that it's "Now or Never". Even if everyone does not catch the allusion, no one misses the message. Maybe Anwar has at long last found time for a snatch of song after having suffered years of soul-searing, unbelievable injustice and political barbarism, because the mood around him is so buoyant. I write this on the eve of what could be Malaysia's most breathtaking election result in 56 years of history as an independent republic.
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All you need to know about Karnataka polls -
Shantanu Bhattacharji, Business Standard
As the 224-member Karnataka assembly goes to polls on May 5, the stage is set for a fierce battle for a state whose political future looks wide open. The election outcome might set the political tone for the 2014 general polls. Political pundits term it as a first semi-final contest. The main contenders for power, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular), and the fledgling Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP), launched in December by former BJP heavyweight and chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, have their own sets of worries.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. Against this backdrop, a poll has been conducted by the popular news website LensOnNews.com to explore various scenarios: the outcome of the coming Lok Sabha election in Bihar if the NDA (the BJP-JDU combine) remains intact; secondly if the two allies...
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