Deoli Election Result: BJP’s Rajesh Bhaurao Bakane Leads With 1,336 Votes

BJP candidate Rajesh Bhaurao Bakane is leading with 4,678 votes secured so far, surpassing Congress candidate and incumbent MLA Ranjit Prataprao Kamble. Kamble closely follows behind with 3,342 votes.

In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Congress’ Ranjit Prataprao Kamble won the seat defeating independent candidate Rajesh Bhauraoji Bakane by a margin of 35,774, a 20.44 percent of the total votes cast for the seat. Congress had a vote share of 43.05 percent in 2019 in this seat.

In the 2014 state Assembly elections, Kamble won the seat defeating BJP’s Suresh Ganpatrao Waghmare by a margin of 943. Congress had a vote share of 37.05 percent in 2014 in this seat.

In the 2009 Assembly elections, Kamble won in the seat defeating Tadas Ramdas Chandrabhan of BJP by a margin of 3,746.

A total of 14 candidates were in the fray for the Deoli Assembly seat this year.

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.

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.