The campaigning for Maharashtra assembly elections came to an end on Saturday with voting scheduled to take place in 288 constituencies of the state on October 21.
Counting for the Maharashtra assembly election 2019 is underway. Polling for all 288 constituencies took place on October 21.
Almost all exit polls have predicted a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance win in the 13th Maharashtra assembly elections.
BJP contested the state polls in an alliance - Mahayuti - with Shiv Sena and some other smaller allies.
BJP emerged as the single largest party and is all set to form the government in alliance with the Shiv Sena.
Addressing a press conference as BJP-Shiv Sena is set to retain power in the state, incumbent Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said, "In 2014, BJP contested on more than 200 seats and won around 120 seats, but this time, we contested on 150 seats along with others on 15 seats, and still we are getting over 100 seats, therefore, our strike rate this time is more than 70%."
"It is happening after several decades that in Maharashtra a government after completing its 5-year full term is being re-elected to power once again," said Fadnavis.
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Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019 - Key candidates
| Candidate |
Party |
Constituency |
2019 Assembly Election Result |
2014 Assembly Election Result |
| Devendra Fadnavis |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
Nagpur South West |
Devendra Fadnavis won against Congress's Dr. Ashish Deshmukh by 49344 votes |
Won the seat by a huge margin of 58,942 votes. Sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. |
| Aaditya Thackeray |
Shiv Sena |
Worli (Mumbai) |
Aaditya Uddhav Thackeray won against Congress's Suresh Mane by 67427 votes |
N/A, first from the Thackeray family to contest polls |
| Prithviraj Chavan |
Indian National Congress (INC) |
Karad South |
Congress 's Prithviraj Chavan won against BJP's Suresh Bhosale by 9130 votes |
The former Chief Minister of Maharashtra won by a margin of 16,418 votes |
| Ashok Chavan |
Indian National Congress (INC) |
Bhokar |
Ashok Chavan won against BJP's Bapusaheb Deshmukh Gorthekar by 97445 votes |
N/A. Another former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan had been involved with the Lok Sabha Elections, having won the 2014 General Elections from the Nanded constituency but losing the 2019 polls. |
| Ajit Pawar |
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) |
Baramati |
Ajit Pawar (NCP) won against BJP's Gopichand Kundlik Padalkar by 165265 votes. |
The nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Ajit won the Baramati seat with 150,588 votes to his name |
| Chandrakant Patil |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
Kothrud |
Chandrakant Patil won against
Kishor Nana Shinde by 25495 votes. |
N/A |
| Dhananjay Munde |
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) |
Parli |
Dhananjay Munde won against BJP's Gopinath Rao Munde by 30701 votes |
Lost to cousin Pankaja Munde of the BJP by a margin of 25,895 votes. Seeking re-election from the seat against the same contestant once again in the 2019 polls. |
| Pankaja Munde |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
Parli |
Pankaje Munde lost the Parli constittuency to his cousin. |
Won against cousin Dhananjay Munde of the NCP, with 96,904 votes to her name. Will be facing him again in the 2019 polls, a bitter family feud. |
| Sudhir Mungantiwar |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
Ballarpur |
Sudhir Mungantiwar won against Congress's Vishwas Anandrao Zade by 33240 votes |
Won the seat with 103,718 votes to his name |
| Girish Mahajan |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
Jamner |
Girish Mahajan won against Nationalist Congress Party's Sanjay Bhaskarrao Garud by 35014 votes |
Won the seat with 103,498 votes to his name. Currently the Minister of water resources, Medical education and Irrigation in Maharashtra government |
| Rohit Pawar |
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) |
Karjat Jamkhed |
Rohit Pawar won against Congress's Ram Shankar Shinde by 43347 votes |
N/A, the grandnephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar is going to contest his first elections with the 2019 polls |
| Deepak Nikalje |
Republican Party of India (RPI) |
Phaltan |
Deepak Nikalje lost the constituency |
N/A. Hit the headlines for being Don Chhota Rajan's brother |
The BJP contested the state polls in an alliance - Mahayuti - with Shiv Sena and some other smaller allies. The BJP fielded candidates on 150 seats, Sena contested from 124 seats while 14 seats had gone to smaller allies including RPI-A.
As for Shiv Sena, this is the first time that a member of the Thackeray family is contesting an election. Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray, is contesting from Worli assembly constituency in Mumbai.
The ruling alliance's main adversary is "maha-aghadi", led by the Congress and the NCP. The Congress fielded 147 candidates and the ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 121.
The opposition's campaign never really gained momentum with Rahul Gandhi and Sharad Pawar addressing some odd number of rallies. The Congress-NCP campaign was mostly led by the candidates and any fighting chance of the alliance depends on the strength of the local campaign.
Total voters in Maharashtra are 8,98,39,600 - 4,28,43,635 women and 4,68,75,750 men - cast their votes on October 21 to elect 288 new members of the new assembly. There are a total of 3237 candidates, including 235 women, in the fray.
The Election Commission deployed 6.5 lakh polling staff for the election held across 96,661 polling booths. A total of 1,35,021 VVPAT machines was used in the election across 288 assembly constituency.
In 2014 elections which the BJP and Shiv Sena contested separately, the two parties won 122 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress and the NCP - who fought the election together - won 42 and 41 seats, respectively.
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