Bhiwandi West Election Results: BJP's Choughule Mahesh Wins

BJP’s Choughule Mahesh Prabhakar has emerged victorious with 70,172 votes from the Bhiwandi West assembly constituency. Samajwadi Party’s Azmi Riyaj came in second by securing 38879 votes.

In the 2019 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections, Bhiwandi West had a total of 275,855 registered electors, with 138,866 valid votes cast. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Chaughule Mahesh Prabhakar won the seat, securing 58,857 votes. He defeated Independent candidate Khalid (Guddu), who received 43,945 votes. Chaughule’s victory margin was 14,912 votes.

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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.

As the ruling Mahayuti alliance hopes to continue in power, opposition Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) strives for a strong comeback.

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.

This assembly polls mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively.

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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.