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The Mahayuti was capable to flip 105 segments that Opposition parties had won successful the Lok Sabha polls. (File)
With counting underway successful Maharashtra, the Mahayuti is headed for a landslide triumph successful what is simply a resounding reversal of its caller setback successful the Lok Sabha polls, successful which it won conscionable 17 of the state’s 48 parliamentary seats. Though counting is yet to beryllium completed, the ruling confederation is acceptable to instrumentality to powerfulness with a sizeable mandate – it is winning successful 219 seats successful the 288-member Assembly based connected aboriginal leads – having flipped astatine slightest 105 Assembly segments it had mislaid to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidates conscionable months agone successful the Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP won 9 seats successful the Lok Sabha polls, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena got seven, and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP conscionable one, translating to a full 125 Assembly segments, good abbreviated of the bulk people of 145 successful the House. The MVA won 30 Lok Sabha seats – 13 by the Congress, 9 by the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), and 8 by the Sharad Pawar-led NCP(SP) – putting the confederation up successful 153 Assembly segments.
However, these Lok Sabha trends bash not look to person carried into the Assembly polls. With an awesome onslaught complaint of 125 seats won from 149 contested, the BJP improved connected its 2019 Assembly tally of 105 and charted a comeback from its 2024 Lok Sabha Assembly segment-level tally of 79. The Shiv Sena improved from 40 Assembly segments successful the Lok Sabha polls to 55 Assembly seats this time, arsenic did the NCP from six to 38. Compared to the Lok Sabha polls, the Mahayuti this clip retained each but 8 of the 125 segments it had led – the MVA managed to flip 7 of this and an Independent one.
The Mahayuti was capable to flip 105 segments that Opposition parties had won successful the Lok Sabha polls. The BJP unsocial was liable for 53 of these flips, followed by the Shiv Sena astatine 28 and the NCP astatine 24.
A breakdown of these flips shows that the BJP wrested 26 Assembly segments from the Congress, 15 from the Sena (UBT), and 10 from the NCP(SP). While the NCP flipped 13 segments from the NCP(SP), it flipped six and 4 segments from the Sena (UBT) and the Congress, respectively. The Shiv Sena flipped 14 segments from the Sena (UBT), 10 from the Congress, and 2 from the NCP(SP). Another 5 seats were flipped by the Mahayuti, including 1 from the AIMIM and 4 from Independents.
The MVA, meanwhile, has truthful acold won 56 Assembly seats, including those won by allies Samajwadi Party (SP), CPI(M), and the Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWPI). But among these wins are conscionable 10 segments it had failed to triumph the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The MVA not lone failed to clasp the seats wherever it led successful the caller Lok Sabha polls, it was incapable to capitalise connected the anti-incumbency and construe its run efforts into much wins.
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