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BJP lost by 1000 votes in 41 seats and by 2000 votes margin in 58 seats.
Publisher’s rating: False
Este video evidencia que la prensa brasileña realizó un despacho sobre el fraude en las elecciones de Paraguay.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Video of Muslims celebrating the Congress party’s victory in the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections by slaughtering a cow on a BJP flag
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim links the video of a cow being slaughtered on a BJP flag to Muslims celebrating Congress’s victory in the May 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage instead with an incident in Lilong, Manipur, on 30 January 2022. It says the incident followed the denial of BJP election tickets to certain local leaders ahead of the 2022 Manipur assembly elections, and that their followers protested and engaged in violence. The review describes two checks: a reverse image search of keyframes from the circulating video, which found the footage in circulation since January 2022, and searches for contemporaneous reporting. It says reports from The Times of India, The Hindu, and the Imphal Free Press place the cow slaughter and abuse of Manipur’s Chief Minister and the state BJP president in Lilong on 30 January 2022. The review therefore distinguishes the video’s documented Manipur setting from the later Karnataka election claim. FACTLY also reports that police registered a case and arrested three people it identifies as Nazbul Hussain, Abdul Rashid, and Arif Khan. Its account connects the footage to agitation over BJP candidate selection in Manipur—not to celebrations of Congress’s victory in Karnataka. The reviewed excerpt gives the incident date, location, and election context; it does not provide the underlying news articles or case documents in full.
कुण्डा में राजा भैया के प्रत्याशी की करारी हार, सपा की सीमा यादव पत्नी गुलशन यादव बनीं चेयरमैन।
Publisher’s rating: False
Videonun Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun 14 Mayıs seçimleri sonrası tepkisini gösterdiği iddiası
Publisher’s rating: Yanlış
जालंदर में हो रहे उप-चुनाव के बीच केजरीवाल लोगों से कांग्रेस को वोट देने की अपील कर रहे है।
Publisher’s rating: Altered
Sinan Oğan’ın videosunun seçimden sonra çekildiği iddiası
Publisher’s rating: Yanlış
Gulbarga North Fake voting done at one of the Muslim booth around 6000 votes by single person from Congress party. Now he is under capture by chandu patil and demanding for Disqualification of Congress MLA. Kaneez Fatima of INC has won the Gulbarga Uttar. #Karnataka
Publisher’s rating: False
In Karnataka elections, BJP lost 58 seats by a margin of 2000 votes & 41 seats by a margin of 1000 votes
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections and says the BJP lost 58 seats by a margin of 2,000 votes and another 41 by a margin of 1,000. The review says the Election Commission of India’s results show a different picture: there were 12 constituencies where the winning margin was below 2,000 votes. The BJP won seven of those seats, while Congress won the other five. That seat breakdown means the BJP lost five seats—not 58—by fewer than 2,000 votes. The review further says all five of those losses were by fewer than 1,000 votes, and that the BJP lost no seat by a margin between 1,000 and 2,000. These figures directly contradict the post’s counts. The review also notes that the claimed total of 99 narrow losses is not supported by its account of the results: it identifies only five BJP losses below 2,000 votes. For additional comparison, it reports that in the 11 constituencies decided by between 2,000 and 3,000 votes, Congress won six, the BJP three, and JD(S) two. The evidence described in the review therefore does not support the claim’s figures.
A tweet by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on 13 May 2023 congratulating the Congress Party on their win in the Karnataka Assembly elections and suggested that they could work with SDPI to strengthen the influence of Islam in Karnataka
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a screenshot said to show Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulating the Congress Party on its Karnataka Assembly election victory and suggesting cooperation with the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) to strengthen Islamic influence in Karnataka. FACTLY says it found no such tweet on 13 May 2023 and rated the claim false. Its conclusion concerns the specific alleged message, not whether the Congress Party won the election or whether Sharif used social media that day. FACTLY describes several checks: searches for reliable Indian and Pakistani media coverage, a review of Sharif’s Twitter account, and examination of an archived snapshot of his profile from the same day. It reports that none showed a tweet about the Congress victory or SDPI. It also cites social-media analytics tools, Truth Nest and Social Blade, which it says indicated that Sharif made only three tweets on 13 May; those posts concerned Pakistan’s internal affairs. The review therefore argues that the alleged message was not merely absent from the live profile but may never have existed. The excerpt does not reproduce the alleged screenshot or the three tweets, so those details cannot be independently compared here.
Jetzt haben die sich echt erwischen lassen beim Wahlbetrug. Der AfD Mann lag vorn, so berichteten andere Medien, und kurz vor dem Schließen der Wahllokale überholte die SPD dank der vielen Briefwähler.
Publisher’s rating: Es gibt keinen Hinweis auf Wahlbetrug. Die Briefwahl ist ein erlaubter Weg der Stimmabgabe. Das Kreiswahlbüro hat keine Hinweise auf Unregelmäßigkeiten, es liegt auch keine offizielle Beschwerde vor. Dass der Screenshot den Eindruck erweckt, der Artikel zum Ergebnis sei vor der Wahl erschienen, hat einen technischen Grund.