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The Congress performed poorly successful nonstop fights with the BJP successful Maharashtra, winning lone 10 of astatine slightest 75 seats wherever the 2 nationalist parties faced each other. The BJP won successful 65 of these seats.
What is much worrisome for the expansive aged enactment is that determination were six seats among these 75 – astir 10% of the full seats with nonstop contests – wherever the Congress was not adjacent successful 2nd place.
While the BJP contested 149 seats crossed Maharashtra, the Congress contested 101, and was locked successful a nonstop contention with the BJP successful astir 75% of the seats wherever it fielded candidates. The results, however, were overwhelmingly successful favour of the BJP.
The BJP’s ballot stock was astir 27%, portion the Congress secured astir 12%. But isolating the parties’ ballot stock to conscionable the seats they contested shows that the BJP secured an mean of 51.5% of the votes polled successful each spot it contested, portion the Congress managed an mean ballot stock 34.7% per seat.
In the caller Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had secured a 44.88% mean ballot stock per spot contested, signaling a 6-percentage constituent summation successful these elections.
The Congress had won 44 seats successful the 2019 Assembly polls, and won 13 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats it contested this year. The Assembly result is simply a wide dip from its past Assembly and Lok Sabha performances. Given that the Congress had secured 47.77% of the ballot stock per spot it contested successful the Lok Sabha polls – and 16.92% of the full votes formed – its ballot stock per spot has seen a 14-percentage constituent diminution successful a substance of months.
Where Congress fell beneath 2nd spot
In Achalpur, which saw a nonstop BJP-Congress fight, the BJP won by much than 12,000 votes, with the Prahar Janshakti Party coming successful second, and the Congress successful third.
In Aurangabad East, the BJP won by conscionable implicit 2,000 votes up of runner-up AIMIM. Here excessively the Congress finished third, apt having mislaid retired connected the Muslim ballot to the AIMIM.
In Chandvad, the Congress dropped backmost to fourth, down the winning BJP, runner-up Prahar Janshakti Party, and an Independent successful 3rd place. The Congress finished much than 81,000 votes down the BJP.
In Nalasopara, too, the Congress was 4th and trailed the winning BJP by astir 1.5 lakh votes. The Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) and the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
In Solapur City Central, the BJP won by much than 48,000 votes implicit the AIMIM, with the Congress further backmost successful 3rd astatine astir 93,000 votes down the BJP.
In Vasai, the BJP trumped the BVA successful 2nd by conscionable implicit 3,000 votes, and the Congress successful 3rd by much than 15,000 votes.
In Bhiwandi West, the BJP finished archetypal by much than 31,000 votes up of the Samajwadi Party (SP) runner-up, an Independent successful third, and the Congress successful fourth, implicit 48,000 votes down the BJP.
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