Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar
Fifteen candidates of the ruling ‘Mahayuti’, including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, are among those who won the Maharashtra Assembly elections by a margin of over one lakh votes. According to Election Commission data, of the ‘Mahayuti’ candidates who won by a margin of more than one vote, 8 were from the Bharatiya Janata Party, four from the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and three from the Shinde-led the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He belongs to Shiv Sena.
No candidate from the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance could achieve the feat of winning by more than one lakh votes. However, some MVA candidates managed to win by more than 90 thousand votes. BJP’s Kashiram Vechan Pavra won in Shirpur by a margin of 1,45,944 votes, while the party’s Shivendraraje Bhonsale defeated his nearest rival in Satara by 1.42 lakh votes.
BJP candidate
Other BJP candidates who won by more than one lakh votes include Kewalram Kale (1,06,859 votes from Melghat), Dilip Borse (1,29,297 votes from Baghlan), Sanjay Upadhyay (1,00,257 votes from Borivali), Shankar Jagtap (Chinchwad) 1,03,865 votes from), Chandrakant Patil (1,12,041 votes from Kothrud) and. Krishna Khopde (1,15,288 votes from Nagpur East) is included.
PCN candidate
NCP chief Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate Yugendra Pawar by 1,00,899 votes in Baramati. However, this figure is less than their victory margin (1.65 lakh votes) in the 2019 assembly elections. Sunil Shelke (1,08,565 votes from Maval), Ashutosh Kale (1,24,624 votes from Kopargaon) and Dhananjay Munde (1,40,224 Parli votes) are the other NCP candidates who managed to win by more than one lakh votes.
Shiv Sena candidate-
In Kopri-Pachpakhadi, Chief Minister Shinde won by a margin of 1,59,060 votes, while in Ovala-Majiwada, his party candidate Pratap Sarnaik emerged victorious by 1,08,158 votes. Shinde’s cabinet colleague Dada Bhuse defeated his nearest rival in the outer Malegaon constituency by a margin of 1,06,606 votes.
In the assembly elections held on November 20 in Maharashtra, the highest number of votes went to Shankar Jagtap of the BJP (2,35,323 votes in Chinchwad) and Mahesh Landge (2,13,624 in Bhosari) and Dhananjay Munde of the NCP (1,94 .889 in Parli). ). (with language inputs)
