Hinganghat Election Result: BJP’s Samir Tryambakrao Kunawar Secures A Third Term

Samir Tryambakrao Kunawar, the BJP candidate, won the Hinganghat assembly seat with 1,14,578 votes, defeating NCP (SP) candidate Atul Namdevrao Wandile who bagged 84,484 votes. The winning margin remains 30,094 votes.

Kunawar won the seat in the 2019 state assembly elections, defeating NCP candidate Raju Alias Mohan Wasudeorao Timande with a margin of 50,615 votes. The BJP had a vote share of 53.83% in 2019 in this seat.

In 2014, Kunawar defeated BSP candidate Telang Pralay Bhaurao with a margin of 65,175 votes. The BJP had a vote share 48.02 percent in 2014 in this seat. In the 2009 state assembly elections, Shiv Sena candidate Ashok Shamraoji Shinde defeated Kunawar, who contested as an independent candidate. Shiv Sena had a vote share of 31.01 percent.

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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.

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.

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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).