<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Counting of votes for Karnataka Assembly elections will begin at 8 am tomorrow. There are 2622 candidates in the fray for 222 seats. The Congress has fielded 220, BJP 222 and the JD(S) 201 candidates. Among the contestants, 217 are women.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar informed that counting will take place in 283 counting centres in 38 places across the state, including five counting centres in Bengaluru for 28 constituencies. He said 11,000 security personnel have been deployed in all the counting centers to avoid any untoward incident.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Releasing data on voters turnout, the CEO said that the state had recorded the highest ever polling of 72.36 per cent polling, beating the previous best of 71.13 recorded in 1978 and 71.45 per cent in the 2013 elections. The female voters turnout has also improved this time. It was little over 63 percent in 2008, 70 percent in 2013 assembly election and 71.08 percent in the current election for the legislative Assembly.&nbsp;</div>