evidence: The Jayanagar seat in the Bengaluru region witnessed the nail-biting contest as the BJP's C K Ramamurthy defeated the Congress’s incumbent MLA Sowmya Reddy by a slender margin of 16 votes, the lowest margin of victory in 2023 polls. The lowest victory margin in the 2018 polls was 213 votes. In total, there were only eight seats across Karnataka that witnessed victories with a margin less than a thousand votes. Of these, three were in Central Karnataka, and two were in the Bengaluru region. [...] There were eight seats where NOTA or None Of The Above polled more votes than the margin of victory. Of these, the Congress won five, while the remaining three went to the BJP. In 2018, there were seven such seats, of which six went to the Congress, and the BJP won the remaining one.