Achalpur Election Result: BJP's Pravin Vasantrao Tayade Wins With 78,201 Votes
BJP candidate Pravin Vasantrao Tayade has secured 78,201 votes, as per the latest Election Commission data, and won the Achalpur assembly seat. He has surpassed Prahar Janshakti Party (PHJSP) candidate Bacchu B. Kadu who secured 66,070 votes. Congress’ Anirudha Alias Babalubhau Subhanrao Deshmukh came in third with 62,791 votes. The margin between the two candidates is over 12,131 votes.
The previous assembly elections witnessed Bachchu Babarao Kadu securing the seat, defeating Deshmukh of Congress with a margin of 8,231.
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The PHJSP had a vote share of 43.88 percent in 2019 in this seat.
In the 2014 elections, Kadu won as an independent candidate, defeating BJP’s Ashok Shridharpant Bansod by a margin of 10,170 votes. In 2009, Kadu won as an independent candidate by defeating Deshmukh Wasudhatai Pundlik of Congress by a margin of 5,743 seats.
The 288 assembly seats in the State went to polls in a single phase on November 20 and 66.05% voter turnout was recorded. Among the seats, 234 belongs to general constituencies, 29 are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), and 25 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST).
The ruling Mahayuti consists of the BJP, the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led breakaway faction of the Shiv Sena, and the deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The opposition, the INDIA bloc’s MVA or the Maha Vikas Aghadi, has the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), or SS (UBT) led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray, the NCP (SP) faction led by Sharad Pawar and the Congress.
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As the ruling Mahayuti alliance hopes to continue in power, opposition Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) strives for a strong comeback.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP secured 105 seats, the undivided Shiv Sena 56, and the Congress 44. In 2014, the BJP won 122 seats, the Shiv Sena and the Congress garnered 63, and 42 seats, respectively.
