As many as 15 candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance breached the 1-lakh vote victory margin threshold, with Kashiram Vechan Pawara of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) topping the record. He secured Shirpur by a record-breaking margin of 145,944 votes.
The best variety of votes polled within the November 20 meeting polls went to BJP candidate Shankar Jagtap (235,323 votes), adopted by BJP’s Mahesh Landge from Bhosari (213,624 votes), and NCP’s Dhananjay Munde from Parli (194,889 votes). (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)
The Mahayuti contains the BJP, Shiv Sena led by chief minister Eknath Shinde, and the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) led by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.
Chief minister Shinde and his deputy Ajit had been amongst those that crossed the edge of their respective strongholds, Kopri-Pachpakhadi and Baramati. The 15 candidates included eight from the BJP, 4 from Ajit Pawar-led NCP, and three from Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction.
From the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), no candidate managed a 1-lakh victory margin, though some got here shut, with margins hovering round 90,000 votes.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance consists of the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar).
Different BJP candidates who achieved landslide victories included Shivendraraje Bhonsale, who defeated his nearest rival in Satara by 1.42 lakh votes, 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 (115,288 votes from Nagpur East).
Ajit defeated his nephew and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate Yugendra Pawar in Baramati by 100,899 votes. Nonetheless, this margin was considerably decrease than the 1.65 lakh votes he had secured in 2019. Others from his faction who made the 1-lakh membership had been Sunil Shelke (108,565 votes from Maval), Ashutosh Kale (124,624 votes from Kopargaon), and Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde (140,224 votes from Parli).
Shinde gained Kopri-Pachpakhadi by a staggering 159,060 votes, whereas Pratap Sarnaik from his faction secured Ovala-Majiwada by 108,158 votes. Shinde’s cupboard colleague Dada Bhuse additionally made the record with a margin of 106,606 votes from Malegaon Outer.
The best variety of votes polled within the November 20 meeting polls went to BJP candidate Shankar Jagtap (235,323 votes), adopted by BJP’s Mahesh Landge from Bhosari (213,624 votes), and NCP’s Dhananjay Munde from Parli (194,889 votes).
Shut battles, slender margins
In stark distinction to the landslides, the polls additionally witnessed intense battles with razor-thin margins.
The tightest contest unfolded in Malegaon Central, the place AIMIM’s Mufti Mohammad Ismail Abdul Khalique retained his seat by simply 162 votes. Khalique secured 109,653 votes, narrowly defeating Indian Secular Meeting candidate Shaikh Aasif Rashid, who polled 109,491 votes.
In Sakoli, Congress chief Nana Patole edged previous BJP’s Avinash Brahmankar by solely 208 votes, securing 96,795 votes to Brahmankar’s 96,587.
A nail-biting contest performed out in Belapur, the place BJP’s Manda Mhatre achieved a hat-trick win by mere 377 votes. Mhatre polled 91,852 votes, overtaking Sandeep Naik of NCP (SP), who garnered 91,475 votes. The end result was declared solely after 28 rounds of counting, paying homage to their fierce battle in 2014.
Equally, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Rambhau Gaikwad retained his Malegaon Outer seat with an 841-vote margin, defeating Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Jayashree Shelke. In the meantime, Congress’s Shirishkumar Naik clinched Navapur by 1,121 votes, warding off unbiased candidate Sharad Gavit.