As counting is underway in Maharashtra, BJP’s Arhchana Patil has been leading while the Congress’s Amit Deshmukh trailing. The BJP leader has a lead margin of over 80,000 votes against the rival candidate.
One of the high-profile candidates Archana Patil Chakurkar is the daughter-in-law of veteran Congress leader and former home minister Shivajirao Patil Chakurkar. The constituency was a Congress stronghold, and Amit Deshmuk has been representing the seat sicne 2009.