Mangalore : As the LS Election polling concludes on April 17, Thursday at 6 pm, the Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency polls 76 per cent.

DK, which has a total of 1564093 voters including 7,90,423 female voters and 7,73,602 men voters will decide the future of DK candidates on the day of result which will be held on May 16.

Belthangady has registered the polling of 76.55%, Moodbidri 74.75 %, Mangalore North 70.08%, Mangalore South 70.02%, Mangalore (Ullal) 74.32%, Bantwal 74.76%, Puttur 80.36% and Sullia 83.50%.

The 14 candidates who contested for the LS election from from Dakshina Kannada Constituency are B Janardhana Poojary of Congress, Nalin Kumar Kateel of the BJP and MR Vasudeva of the AAP, Yadava Shetty of CPI(M), Haneef Khan of SDPI has Haneef Khan, Supreeth Kumar Poojary of Hindustan Janatha Party, Abdul Karim of BSP and independents candidates Anand Gatti, Kushala Bellare, Sudatta Jain, Deepak Rajesh Coelho, Maxim Pinto, KN Somashekhar and Subrahmanya Gowda

Political party leaders like Janardhana Poojary, Ramanath Rai, MLA J R Lobo, Moiddin Bava, Nalin Kumar Kateel, Former MLA Yogish Bhat exercised their franchise in the morning in their respective polling booth.

No untoward incident has been witnessed in DK.