Kalamnuri Election Result: Shiv Sena's Bangar Santosh Laxmanrao
In Kalamnuri assembly constituency of Maharashtra, Bangar Santosh Laxmanrao of Shiv Sena retains the seat with 1,22,016 votes. He won the seat by defeating Dr Santosh Kautika Tarfe of Shiv Sena UBT, and Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi’s Dr Dilip Maske with a margin of 31,083 votes.
The Kalamnuri Assembly constituency of Maharashtra constituency went to polls on November 20th. The candidates from constituency were Shiv Sena UBT’s Santosh Kautika Tarfe, Shiv Sena’s Bangar Santosh Laxmanrao, And All India Majlis-E-Inquilab-E-Millat’s Mehraj A. SK. Mastan SK. During the last election, the seat was won by SHS’ Laxmanrao with the margin of 16,378 votes.
This assembly polls mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively. During the Legislative Assembly election of Maharashtra in 2019, the state had recorded a 61.4% voter turnout, and NDA alliance, which include BJP, and Shiv Sena won the 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).
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.
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.
