ABP EXIT POLL 2019: BJP-Shiv Sena to dominate Maharashtra with 34 of 48 Lok Sabha seats

In 2014 general elections, the BJP and Shiv Sena alliance bagged 23 and 18 seats respectively while the Congress and NCP combine managed to get only two and four seats.

In the state, Congress+ projected to bag 14 seats here. In the state, BJP fought the elections with Shiv Sena while the Congress is with Sharad Pawar’s NCP. (Photo by Vijayanand Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

NEW DELHI: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is expected to win 34 out of 48 Lok Sabha seats in the electorally important state of Maharashtra, according to an exit poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen. In 2014, it won 42 seats in the state. The Congress-NCP combine is projected to bag 14 seats. It had won only 6 seats in 2014. In 2014, the BJP had won 23 seats while its ally Shiv Sena had won 18 seats while one seat went to the Swabhimani Paksha. For the UPA, the Congress had won 2 seats in 2014 while the NCP got 4 seats. At 48, Maharashtra sends the second largest number of MPs to Lok Sabha, after Uttar Pradesh which has total 80 constituencies.

#ABPExitPoll2019 - BJP-Shiv Sena combine to win 34 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Congress+ projected to bag 14 seats here.

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The elections to the Lok Sabha were held in seven phases across India, beginning from 11 April. The subsequent phases of the election were held on 18 April, 23 April 29 April, 6 May, 12 May and 19 May where the state of Maharashtra voted in four phases from April 11 to April 29. The total number of voters in Maharashtra, as on January 25, stood at 8,73,30,484 as against 8,07,98,823 in 2014. The number of voters has gone up by over 65 lakh since 2014 while more than 11,000 new polling booths have been added in urban areas. In Maharashtra, voting was held on April 11 for seven seats, namely Wardha, Ramtek, Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Gadchiroli-Chimur, Chandrapur and Yavatmal-Washim, all in Vidarbha region. The seats that went to vote in the second phase on April 18 were Buldana, Akola, Amravati, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur and Solapur constituencies. Most of these seats fall under Marathwada region. A total of 14 Lok Sabha seats went to polls on April 23 during the third phase. They include Jalgaon, Raver, Jalna, Aurangabad, Raigad, Pune, Baramati, Ahmednagar, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur and Hatkanangle. The final phase of polling in Maharashtra was held on April 29 when 17 constituencies including Nandurbar, Dhule, Dindori, Nashik, Palghar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Mumbai North, Mumbai North-West, Mumbai North-Central, Mumbai South-Central, Mumbai South, Maval, Shirur and Shirdi.