Maharashtra Election Results LIVE: Mahayuti Wins 230, MVA Reduced To 46; BJP Emerges As Largest Party
2024 Maharashtra Assembly Results LIVE: All eyes are on the battle between the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance and the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition. Stay tuned for updates and results as the trends emerge.
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Maharashtra Election Results LIVE Updates: Maha Vikas Aghadi or Mahayuti? The Answer Awaits! Welcome to ABP Live’s LIVE Blog on the Maharashtra 2024 Assembly Election Results! The much-anticipated counting of votes begins today at 8 am, starting with postal ballots as per the procedure. Stay tuned as we bring you real-time updates, on-ground developments, emerging trends, and discussions surrounding the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Will the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) retain power, or will Mahayuti emerge victorious? Stay with ABP Live for unparalleled coverage and insights into this electoral battle.
The 288-seat Maharashtra Assembly requires any party or alliance to secure at least 145 seats to form the government. To ensure smooth counting, 288 counting centres have been established, including one for the Nanded Lok Sabha bypoll. Each assembly constituency is assigned a dedicated counting observer, with two additional observers monitoring the Nanded bypoll.
With a substantial increase in postal ballots this year, authorities have arranged 1,732 tables for their counting and an additional 592 for the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System.
Major Alliances & Contestants
The electoral battle is fierce, with the Mahayuti alliance and the MVA combined leading the fray:
Mahayuti Alliance:
- BJP: 149 seats
- Shiv Sena (Shinde faction): 81 seats
- NCP (Ajit Pawar faction): 59 seats
MVA Combine:
- Congress: 101 seats
- Shiv Sena (UBT): 95 seats
- NCP (Sharad Pawar faction): 86 seats
Other notable participants include the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), fielding 237 candidates, and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), contesting 17 seats.
This election saw a 28% rise in the number of candidates compared to 2019, with 4,136 individuals contesting versus 3,239 previously. Among these, 2,086 are independents. The contest has also seen a surge in rebel candidates, with over 150 constituencies witnessing party dissidents running against official nominees of the Mahayuti and MVA.
The final voter turnout in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, held on November 20, 2024, stood at 66.05%, a significant rise from 61.1% in 2019.
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Fifteen candidates from the ruling Mahayuti breached the 1-lakh victory margin threshold, including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Ajit Pawar in their respective strongholds of Kopri-Pachpakhadi and Baramati.The 15 comprise eight from the BJP, four from Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party and three from Shinde's Shiv Sena.No candidate from the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi won this handsomely, though some managed to have victory margins of 90,000 votes.
The BJP's Kashiram Vechan Pawara won from Shirpur by a margin of 145944 votes, while the party's Shivendraraje Bhonsale defeated his nearest rival in Satara by 1.42 lakh votes.
Other BJP candidates who won with more than one lakh votes are Kewalram Kale (106,859 votes from Melghat), Dilip Borse (129,297 votes from Baglan), Sanjay Upadhyay (100,257 votes from Borivali), Shankar Jagtap (103,865 votes from Chinchwad), Chandrakant Patil (112,041 votes from Kothrud) and Krishan Khopde (115288 votes from Nagpur East).
Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew and NCP (SP) candidate Yugendra Pawar by 100,899 votes in Baramati, though this was less than the 1.65 lakh vote victory margin of the NCP leader in the 2019 polls.
Sunil Shelke (108,565 votes from Maval), Ashutosh Kale (124,624 votes from Kopargaon), and Maharashtra Minister Dhananjay Munde (140,224 votes from Parli) were others from Ajit Pawar's party who managed to get into the 1-lakh victory margin club.
CM Shinde won from the Kopri-Pachpakhadi Assembly constituency with a margin of 159,060 votes, while his party's candidate from Ovala-Majiwada constituency Pratap Sarnaik won by 108,158 votes. Shinde's cabinet colleague Dada Bhuse won from Malegaon Outer constituency by 106,606 votes.
The highest number of votes polled in the November 20 assembly polls went to BJP candidate Shankar Jagtap (235323), followed by the party's candidate from Bhosari assembly constituency Mahesh Landge (213624), and NCP candidate from Parli assembly constituency Dhananjay Munde (194889). (PTI)
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