Maharashtra Election Results 2024 Live Updates: In a state hit by political turmoil over the last two years, the elections will also be a decider on the NDA-INDIA upmanship.
Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election Results Live: As per Election Commission figures, the NDA is leading in 17 seats, while the INDIA bloc is ahead in 30 seats. While NCP(SP)’s Supriya Sule has consolidated a considerable margin over her sister-in-law and rival Sunetra Pawar in Baramati, BJP’s Pankaja Munde is trailing in family bastion Beed. Further, candidates leading in Jalgaon, Mumbai North, Raver, Osmanabad, Kalyan, Thane and Nandurbar have consolidated margins of over 1 lakh votes.
Across 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra289 counting centres will be in the spotlight as the Mahayuti alliance (BJPCM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar-led NCP) and Maha Vikas Aghadi (Sharad Pawar-led NCP, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress) vie for political supremacy. Exit polls lend hope to the Opposition, with most predicting 23 to 32 seats for the NDA and 16 to 25 seats for the INDIA bloc.
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The 1,121 candidates in the fray include prominent figures such as Union ministers Nitin Gadkari (from Nagpur seat), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Narayan Rane (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Raosaheb Danve (Jalna), Bharti Pawar (Dindori) and Kapil Patil (Bhiwandi). However, one of the most riveting contests will be in Baramati, where Sharad Pawar’s daughter and sitting NCP (SP) MP supriya sule was pitted against her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar, wife of Ajit Pawar, who last year engineered a split in the Nationalist Congress Party.
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About the elections in Maharashtra
Elections were held in Maharashtra in five phases between April 19 and May 20 at over 98,000 polling stations. The state logged an overall voter turnout of 61.33 per cent across the five phases.
Seat-sharing arrangements saw major deliberations
Seat-sharing talks continued, coming to a conclusion just short of the polling phases, with both the Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi holding back candidate announcements owing to infighting.
Among the opposition MVA allies, the Shiv Sena (UBT) contested the maximum 21 seats, followed by Congress 17 and NCP (SP) 10. In the ruling Mahayuti, the BJP fielded 28 candidates, followed by Shinde-led Sena which contested 15 seats, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP 4 and ally RSP 1.
Key battles
The key battles were between BJP leader Pankaja Munde and Bajrang Sonawane of the NCP (SP) in Beed and between Congress MLA Praniti Shinde, daughter of ex-Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, and Ram Satpute of the BJP in Solapur. Shahu Chhatrapati, a royal from Kolhapur, and Udayanraje Bhosale, a direct descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, contested from Kolhapur and Satara seats on Congress and BJP tickets, respectively.
In Mumbai, the Shiv Sena led by CM Shinde and the Uddhav Thackeray faction are locked in a straight fight in three of six seats- Mumbai South, Mumbai North West, and Mumbai South Central. Prominent lawyer and debutant politician Ujjwal Nikam of the BJP contested against Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad from Mumbai North Central seat. Eknath Shinde’s son and sitting MP Shrikant Shinde is seeking a third term from Kalyan.
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First uploaded on: 03-06-2024 at 22:00 IST
