Chandrapur Election Result: Kishor Jorgewar Wins A Second Term

BJP candidate Kishor Jorgewar Gajanan secured his second victory with 1,06,841 votes, defeating Congress candidate Pravin Nanaji Padwekar who bagged 84,037 votes. The winning margin is 22,804 votes.

Jorgewar won the seat as an independent candidate in the 2019 state assembly elections, defeating BJP candidate Nanaji Sitaramji Shamkule with a margin of 23,394 votes. In the 2014 assembly elections, Shamkule won the seat by defeating Jorgewar, who contested as a Shiv Sena candidate, by a margin of 30,722 votes.

In the 2009 assembly elections, Shamkule won the seat defeating Congress candidate Ramteke Bita Ghansham with a margin of 15,410 votes.

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

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.

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.