Maharashtra Election Results 2024 Live Updates: As per exit polls, the NDA is likely to hover between 23 and 32, while the Opposition is expected to win 16 to 25 seats.
Maharashtra Assembly Elections ResultsThe election, which has seen fierce fighting in key constituencies between lawmakers from the divided Shiv Sena and NCP, will reach a climax when the Election Commission begins counting votes in the state that sends the second-highest number of MPs to India’s lower house.
289 polling stations will be closely watched in 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra as the Mahayuti alliance (BJP, Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and NCP led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar) and Maha Vikas Aghadi (NCP led by Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) led by Uddhav Thackeray and Indian National Congress) compete for political supremacy. Exit polls have pinned their hopes on the opposition, with most predicting the NDA to win 23-32 seats and the INDIA bloc to win 16-25 seats.
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The 1,121 candidates include prominent names such as Union ministers Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur constituency), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai north), Narayan Rane (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Raosaheb Danve (Jalna), Bharti Pawar (Dindori) and Kapil Patil (Bhiwandi). But one of the most intriguing battles will be in Baramati, where Sharad Pawar’s daughter and incumbent SP MP Supriya Sule will face off against Sunetra Pawar, wife and sister-in-law of Ajit Pawar, who engineered the split in the Congress party last year.
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Maharashtra Elections
Maharashtra elections were held in five phases at over 98,000 polling stations between April 19 and May 20. The state recorded an overall voter turnout of 61.33 per cent across the five phases.
The seat allocation arrangement caused great controversy.
Negotiations on seat allocation continued and were concluded just before the polls, although both the Mahyuti Party and the Maha Vikas Aghadi Party had refrained from announcing candidates due to internal disputes.
Of the opposition MVA alliance, the Shiv Sena (UBT) contested the maximum number of seats in 21, followed by the Indian National Congress with 17 and the NCP (SP) with 10. In the ruling Mahayuti, the BJP fielded 28 candidates, followed by Shinde-led Sena with 15, Ajit Pawar-led NCP with four and ally RSP with one.
Important battles
Key battles were in Beed between BJP leader Pankaja Munde and NCP (SP)’s Bajrang Sonawane, and in Solapur between Congress MP Praniti Shinde, daughter of former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, and BJP’s Ram Satpute. Kolhapur royal Shahu Chhatrapati and Udayanraj Bhosale, a direct descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, ran as candidates for the Kolhapur and Satara constituencies as Congress and BJP nominees respectively.
In Mumbai, Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray’s faction are going head-to-head in three of the six assembly seats – Mumbai South, Mumbai North West and Mumbai South Central. Ujjwal Nikam, a prominent lawyer and new BJP politician, is contesting from the Mumbai North Central seat against Varsha Gaikwad of the Mumbai National Congress Party. Eknath Shinde’s son and incumbent MP Shrikant Shinde is seeking a third term from Karan.
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First uploaded: 06 March 2024 22:00 IST
