Congress Retains Nanded Lok Sabha Seat After Defeating BJP's Santukrao Hambarde With Thin Margin

Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi managed to get just 46 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly election.

The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of sitting MP Vasant Chavan.

Source : PTI

Late Congress MP Vasant Chavan's son Ravindra Chavan won the Nanded Lok Sabha bypoll defeating his nearest rival Santukrao Hambarde of BJP by 1,457 votes. Chavan polled 5,86,788 votes while Hambarde got 5,85,331 votes. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of sitting MP Vasant Chavan on August 26. 

Pratap Patil Chikhalikar, who won the 2019 Lok Sabha poll for the Nanded seat as a BJP candidate, had defeated Ashok Chavan who was then with the Congress. Chikhalikar lost the 2024 Lok Sabha poll from Nanded to Vasant Chavan by more than 59,000 votes While Ashok Chavan joined the BJP in February this year, Chikhalikar is now with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and is contesting the assembly poll from Loha in Nanded, which he has represented twice as an MLA.

However, Congress lost all assembly segments falling in the Nanded constituency. BJP's Chavan Sreeraya Ashokrai defeated Congress's Kadam Kondhekar Tirupati in Bhokar. Shiv Sena's Balaji Devidasrao Kalyankar defeated Congress candidate Abdul Sattar Gaffoor in Nanded North, while Anand Shankar Tidke won against Mohanrao Marotrao Hambarde in Nanded South.

Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi faced drubbing in the state as the opposition combined managed to get just 46 seats in the Maharashtra election. The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance retained power by winning 230 of the 288 assembly seats. The Election Commission announced that the BJP has won 132 seats, the Shiv Sena won 57, while the NCP got 41 seats.