Bengaluru, 5 June

Three women candidates from Karnataka will represent the state in the Lok Sabha with BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje becoming the first-ever woman MP from Bengaluru while debutants from Congress -- Prabha Mallikarjun and Priyanka Jarkiholi --posted wins from Davangere and Chikkodi, respectively, on Tuesday.

The Congress had fielded six women while the BJP had picked two women candidates in the state, which has a total of 28 Lok Sabha seats.

Union Minister Karandlaje won by a margin of 2,59,476 votes in Bengaluru North constituency defeating Congress candidate MV Rajeev Gowda.

Out of the six candidates fielded by Congress, Prabha Mallikarjun who made her electoral debut, became the first-ever woman MP from Davangere.

Coming from a political family and canvassing for Congress candidates for two decades and more in the past elections there, she defeated BJP's Gayathri Siddeshwara by a margin of 26,094 votes.

Once a Congress stronghold, the BJP has been winning the Davangere seat since 1999. -- PTI