Amgaon Election Result: BJP's Sanjay Puram Wins

BJP candidate Sanjay Puram secured victory with 1,10,123 votes, defeating Congress candidate Rajkumar Lotuji Puram who bagged 77,402 votes. The margin between the two candidates is 32,721 votes.

In the previous state assembly elections, Congress candidate Korote Sahasram Maroti won the seat, defeating Puram by a margin of 7,335 votes. The grand old party had a vote share of 48.16 percent in the Amgaon assembly seat in 2019.

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Sanjay won the 2014 assembly elections by defeating Congress candidate Ramrtanbapu Bhartrajbapu Raut by a margin of 18,295 votes. Raut won the assembly seat in the 2009 assembly elections, defeating BJP candidate Taram Ramesh Narayan with 6,817 votes.

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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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.

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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