Akola East Election Result: BJP’s Randhir Pralhadrao Sawarkar Wins
BJP candidate Randhir Pralhadrao Sawarkar won the assembly seat with 1,08,619 votes. Following behind him is Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Gopal Aliaas Ashish Ramrao Datkar who secured 58,006 votes. The margin of votes is an impressive 50,613 votes
Sawarkar won a second term by defeating Bhade Haridas Pandhari of VBA by a margin of 24,495, 12.67 percent of the total votes cast for the seat in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections. BJP had a vote share of 51.97 percent in 2019 in this seat.
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Savarkar won by defeating Bhade Haridas Pandhari of BBM by a margin of 2,440 which was 1.45 percent of the total votes cast for the seat. BJP had a vote share of 31.83 percent in 2014 in this seat.
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Pandhari won the seat defeating Gulabrao Ramrao Gawande of Shiv Sena with a margin of 14,244 votes.
A total of 11 candidates were in the fray for the Akola East Assembly seat this year.
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.
The BJP has fielded 149 candidates, Shiv Sena (Shinde) 81, and NCP (Ajit Pawar) 59. In the opposition, the Congress has fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (UBT) 95, and NCP (Sharad Pawar) 86.
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This assembly polls mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively.
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.
