Jalgaon Rural Election Results: Shiv Sena's Gulabrao Raghunath Patil Leads

Gulabrao Raghunath Patil of Shiv Sena wins by securing 1,43,408 votes from Jalgaon Rural constituency while Gulabrao Baburao Deokar of NCP has come second with a vote margin of 59,232.

Jalgaon rural is a legislative assembly constituency in Maharashtra. The key candidates in the constituency are Gulabrao Raghunath Patil of Shiv Sena, Gulabrao Baburao Deokar of NCP and Pravin Jagan Sapkale of VBA. In the 2019, Jalgaon Rural legislative assembly constituency had total 315672 electors. Total number of valid vote was 198363. Shiv Sena candidate Gulabrao Raghunath Patil won and became MLA from this seat. He secured total 1,05,795 votes.

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Meanwhile, independent candidate Attarade Chandrashekhar Prakash stood second with total of 59,066 electors.

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.

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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.

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.

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