15 candidates from the ruling 'Mahayuti', including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, are among those who won the Maharashtra Assembly elections by a margin of more than one lakh votes. According to Election Commission data, of the 'Mahayuti' candidates who won by a margin of more than one vote, 8 were from the Bharatiya Janata Party, four from the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and three from the Shinde-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Belongs to Shiv Sena.
No candidate from the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) could achieve the feat of winning by more than one lakh votes. However, some MVA candidates were successful in winning by more than 90 thousand votes. BJP's Kashiram Vechan Pavra won from Shirpur by a margin of 1,45,944 votes, while the party's Shivendraraje Bhonsale defeated his nearest rival in Satara by 1.42 lakh votes.
BJP candidate-
Other BJP candidates who won by more than one lakh votes include Kewalram Kale (1,06,859 votes from Melghat), Dilip Borse (1,29,297 votes from Baghlan), Sanjay Upadhyay (1,00,257 votes from Borivali), Shankar Jagtap (Chinchwad). 1,03,865 votes from), Chandrakant Patil (1,12,041 votes from Kothrud) and Krishna Khopde (1,15,288 votes from Nagpur East) is included.
NCP candidate-
NCP chief Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew and NCP candidate (Sharadchandra Pawar) Yugendra Pawar by 1,00,899 votes in Baramati. However, this figure is less than his victory margin (1.65 lakh votes) in the 2019 assembly elections. Sunil Shelke (1,08,565 votes from Maval), Ashutosh Kale (1,24,624 votes from Kopargaon) and Dhananjay Munde (1,40,224 votes from Parli) are the other NCP candidates who managed to win by more than one lakh votes. are.
Shiv Sena candidate-
In the assembly elections held on November 20 in Maharashtra, the highest number of votes were secured by BJP's Shankar Jagtap (2,35,323 votes in Chinchwad) and Mahesh Landge (2,13,624 in Bhosari) and NCP's Dhananjay Munde (1,94,889 in Parli). (with language inputs)
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