Leader of the Mahayuti and Mahavikas Aghadi alliance
Counting of votes for the Maharashtra Assembly elections will begin at 8 am on Saturday. All eyes are on the outcome of the contest between the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which is trying to return to power. Election officials said the final turnout in the vote held on November 20 was 66.05 percent, while in 2019 this figure was 61.1 percent.
The vote will take place on November 20.
He said counting of votes will also be carried out for the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election, where 67.81 per cent votes were recorded on November 20. He said 76.63 per cent voting took place in Kolhapur district of the state, followed by 75.26 per cent voting in Gadchiroli, where some areas are affected by Left-wing extremism, while the voting more low was 52.07 per cent in Mumbai. There was 55.95 per cent voting in the suburban Mumbai district.
288 computing centers were created
A total of 288 counting centers have been set up for Saturday’s vote counting, including a center for the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election as well. A total of 288 counting observers will monitor each assembly constituency, while two observers have been appointed to monitor counting in the Nanded Lok Sabha by-elections, an official said.
BJP fielded candidates for 149 assembly seats
The official said that due to the high number of postal votes, 1,732 tables for counting of postal votes and 592 tables for the Electronically Transmitted Postal Vote System (ETPBS) have been set up to ensure a smooth counting process in all districts. assembly elections. In the grand alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party had fielded candidates for 149 assembly seats, the Shiv Sena for 81 seats and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had fielded candidates for 59 constituencies.
The Congress contested the elections for 101 seats.
In the opposition alliance MVA, Congress fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (UBT) 95 and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) 86 candidates. Parties like Bahujan Samaj Party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) also participated in the elections, in which the BSP fielded 237 candidates and AIMIM 17 candidates.
This time the number of candidates increased by 28 per cent compared to the 2019 assembly elections in the state. This year, 4,136 candidates stood for election, while in the 2019 elections 3,239 candidates were in the running. Of these candidates, 2,086 are independent. Rebel candidates were in the fray for more than 150 seats, with Mahayuti and MVA candidates competing against their party’s official candidates.
Police issued order on counting
This time there were 100,186 polling stations in Maharashtra, while in the 2019 assembly elections there were 96,654 polling stations. The Mumbai Police has issued an order prohibiting gathering of people within 300 meters of the city’s 36 counting centres.
The Assembly’s mandate ends on November 26
These centers cover 36 assembly constituencies. This order will go into effect from 6 am on November 21 until midnight on November 24. Before the counting of votes, a local party worker in Pune put up a poster showing NCP chief and deputy minister Ajit Pawar as the next chief minister, although it was later removed. The term of the current state assembly ends on November 26.
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