Maharashtra Assembly poll results 2024: Mahayuti sweeps Mumbai as it bags 22 out of 36 seats

BJP’s palmy Mumbai run

Among the large winners of the BJP were curate Mangal Prabhat Lodha, who won his seventh term, and won by a borderline of 68,019 votes. The largest triumph by borderline was of first-time campaigner Sanjay Upadhyay, who won by 1,00,257 votes successful Borivali, which has been ruled by the BJP since 1990.

Ten of the 15 winners of the BJP won their 3rd term, including the state’s richest campaigner Parag Shah, who won from Ghatkopar (east), and Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar, who won from Bandra (west).

Among the different salient BJP winners were Rahul Narwekar, who arsenic the Maharashtra Speaker, was astatine the helm of deciding the destiny of disqualification of MLAs, aft the Shiv Sena divided successful 2022, starring to the alteration successful authorities successful the state. Narwekar won his 2nd word from Colaba, winning by a borderline of 48,581 votes.

In Dahisar, BJP’s Manisha Chaudhary defeated Sena (UBT) campaigner Vinod Ghosalkar by implicit 44,000 votes. The Sena (UBT) had hoped to construe sympathy into votes for Vinod, who mislaid his lad and erstwhile corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar, who was changeable dormant during a Facebook Live league successful February this year.

The BJP, however, mislaid 2 seats successful the city. Versova sitting MLA Bharati Lavekar mislaid to Haroon Khan of the Sena (UBT) by a constrictive borderline of 1,600 votes. Khan is the archetypal Muslim campaigner to triumph connected a Sena (UBT) summons successful Mumbai. BJP campaigner Vinod Shelar, elder member of the party’s metropolis president Ashish Shelar, mislaid to Congress’s Aslam Shaikh successful Malad by a borderline of 6,227 votes.

Sena vs Sena successful Mumbai

This time, Mumbai saw nonstop contention betwixt Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and the Sena campy led by Eknath Shinde connected 12 seats, six each won by some the camps.

Shiv Sena (UBT) person Aaditya Thackeray retained his spot successful the Worli constituency, defeating erstwhile Congress MP and present Shinde Sena person Milind Deora. Aaditya trailed by implicit 600 votes successful lone 1 of the 17 counting rounds but yet won by 8,801 votes, a acold little borderline than his maiden triumph successful 2019 erstwhile helium won by 67,427 votes.

Aaditya’s relative Varun Sardesai excessively made his maiden canvass debut, defeating sitting MLA Zeeshan Siddique of the NCP (Ajit Pawar) successful the Bandra eastbound constituency by implicit 11,000 votes. In 2019, Zeeshan, who was a Congress candidate, had defeated undivided Shiv Sena by 5,790 votes.

Zeeshan’s begetter and NCP person Baba Siddique, who enjoyed overmuch clout successful suburban Bandra, was murdered past month. Zeeshan said his father’s acquisition and guidance would person helped him otherwise and helium could not unrecorded up to his father’s expectations.

Sardesai said radical from each communities voted for him and the seats which are adjacent to each other—from Kalina to Shivadi—have reposed religion successful the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena erstwhile again. “Matoshree (Uddhav Thackeray’s residence) is successful Bandra east. Last time, we mislaid this spot and radical were not happy. They enactment their religion successful Uddhav Saheb this time. We person won Mahim and Worli and Shivadi too. All these seats are adjacent to each other. This full loop has shown religion successful the Shiv Sena (UBT) erstwhile again,” said Sardesai.

Four of Sena (UBT)’s candidates—Sunil Raut (Vikhroli), Sunil Prabhu (Dindoshi), Ajay Choudhari (Shivadi) and Sanjay Potnis (Kalina)—won their 3rd terms. Prabhu won against Sena’s Sanjay Nirupam, formerly a Congress MP, by 6,058 votes.

Mahesh Sawant, a first-time campaigner of the Sena (UBT), won against Shiv Sena’s two-time MLA Sada Sarvankar, successful Mahim. The contention was intimately watched arsenic it marked the debut of Amit Thackeray, lad of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena laminitis Raj Thackeray. Amit came 3rd bagging 33,062 votes, implicit 17,000 votes down the victor Sawant.

In Jogeshwari East, Manisha Waikar, a first-time campaigner from Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction, was starring for astir of the day. As the woman of MP Ravindra Waikar, she seemed poised to unafraid the seat. In the last round, Anant Bala Nar of Shiv Sena (UBT) turned the tables, securing a constrictive triumph by conscionable 1,541 votes, winning his archetypal term.

Eknath Shinde Sena’s winning candidates included Dilip Lande, who won his 2nd word from Chandivali against Congress’ Naseem Khan. Sena’s Murji Patel won from Andheri East, defeating Sena (UBT)’s Rutuja Latke with a ample bulk of 94,010 votes.

Others

MVA’s confederation enactment Samajwadi Party person Abu Asim Azmi excessively won comfortably, his 4th word from the Mankhurd Shivajinagar constituency with 54,780 votes. Azmi was contesting against NCP (Ajit Pawar) person Nawab Malik, who had accused the erstwhile of encouraging the merchantability of drugs and expanding transgression successful the area.

Malik had fixed up his Anushakti Nagar spot for his girl Sana, who fought a adjacent contention with NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) campaigner Fahad Ahmad. Sana secured triumph with a borderline of 3,378 votes.

The Congress, which contested 11 seats, managed to triumph lone three. Its Mumbadevi three-time MLA Amin Patel won his 4th word against Shiv Sena’s Shaina NC, winning by 34,844 votes.

Mumbai Congress president and Lok Sabha MP Varsha Gaikwad’s younger sister, Jyoti Gaikwad, won from Dharavi by a borderline of 23,459 votes against Shiv Sena’s Rajesh Khandare. Malad’s Aslam Shaikh won his 3rd word for the Congress.