Chimur Election Result: Two-Time MLA Bunty Bhangdiya Wins A Third Term
Incumbent MLA and BJP candidate Bunty Bhangdiya secured a third victory with 1,16,495 votes, surpassing Congress candidate Satish Manohar Warjukar who bagged 1,06,642 votes. The margin between the candidates is 9,853 votes.
Bhangdiya secured his second term by defeating Warjukar by a margin of 9,706 votes. The BJP had a vote share of 41.94 percent in 2019 in this seat. He first won the seat in 2014 by a margin of 25,155 votes. He defeated Congress candidate Dr Avinash Manoharrao Warjukar.
In the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Congress’ Wadettiwar Vijay Namdeorao won in this seat defeating BJP’s Vasantbhau Narayan Warjurkar by a margin of 30,616 which was 18.1 percent of the total votes cast for the seat. Congress had a vote share of 52.83 percent in 2009 in this seat.
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A total of 13 candidates were in the fray for the Chimur Assembly seat in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election.
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).
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.
As the ruling Mahayuti alliance hopes to continue in power, opposition Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) strives for a strong comeback.
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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.
