Arvi Election Result: BJP's Sumit Wankhede Leads In Early Trends

As the counting of votes commence, BJP candidate Sumit Wankhede has achieved a lead in the Arvi assembly seat with 8,777 votes so far. Trailing behind him is NCP (SP) candidate Mayura Amar Kale with 5,916 votes. The margin between the two candidate is 2,861 votes.

BJP candidate Dadarao Yadaoraoji Keche won the Arvi assembly seat in the 2019 assembly elections in the state, defeating Amar Sharadrao Kale of Congress by a margin of 12,379. The BJP had a vote share of 49.35 percent in 2019 in this seat.

In the 2014 Assembly elections, Kale won the seat defeating Keche by a margin of 3,143. The grand old party had a vote share of 44.58 percent in 2014 in this seat.

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In the 2009 Assembly elections, Keche won Arvi assembly seat defeating Kale by a margin of 3,130. The BJP had a vote share of 46 percent in 2009 in this seat.

In the 2024 assembly elections in Maharashtra, a total of 18 candidates were in the fray for the Arvi assembly seat.

There were a total of 2,65,420 registered voters on the electoral rolls for the 2024 Assembly election in Arvi Assembly constituency, of which 1,33,598 were male, 1,31,820 female and 2 of the third gender.

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).

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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.