Nagpur West Seat.
Counting of votes for the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections has begun today. Voting was held for all 288 seats in the state in a single phase on November 20. This time a tough contest is being seen in the Nagpur West seat. Sudhakar Kohle is in the race for the BJP, while Vikas Thackeray is running for the Congress. There is a tight contest between the candidates of the two major parties for the Nagpur West Assembly seat.
Read moment by moment updates of results in Nagpur West seat here…
- 8.01: Counting of votes has begun in Nagpur West Assembly seat. First, the votes on the ballots are counted. Heavy security forces are deployed outside the counting site.
- The election results for Nagpur West Assembly seat will start being published soon.
The Nagpur West Assembly seat, which was earlier considered a Congress bastion, returned to the Congress account after 29 years in 2019. Vikas Thackeray of the Congress won this seat by defeating Sudhakar Deshmukh of the BJP. This seat remained with the BJP for a long time, from where the party won 6 consecutive elections. Even Devendra Fadnavis strengthened his political position by winning the elections from this seat. But the Congress’s comeback in the 2019 elections was a big blow to the BJP as this seat was one of its safe seats in Nagpur, considered an RSS stronghold.
Electoral results of the year 2019.
In the 2019 elections, Congress’s Vikas Thackeray got 83,252 votes, while BJP’s Sudhakar Deshmukh got 76,885 votes. In this close contest, Congress stopped BJP’s Vijayarath. Before this, the Congress had last won here in 1985.
caste equation
If we talk about the caste equation, then there are around 20 per cent Dalit, 8 per cent tribal and 11 per cent Muslim voters in this seat. This is a completely urban area and there are no rural voters here. However, caste equations are not considered very effective in this seat.
