Nagpur South West Election Result: Devendra Fadnavis Leads In Early Trends
As per the early trends from Election Commission, Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis leads in Nagpur South West constituency. His opponent Prafulla Gudadhe Patil is trailing with 4029 votes.
Devendra Fadnavis, is seeking his sixth term from Nagpur South West. In the 2014 election, Prafulla contested against Fadnavis for the first time and lost the seat to Fadnavis by a margin of 58,942 votes.
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Prafulla Gudadhe Patil is an ex-corporator from Nagpur Municipal Corporation. He is the son of former minister Vinod Gudadhe-Patil, who was the first BJP MLA from Nagpur district in 1990. A two-time MLA from Nagpur-West, the senior Patil later left the BJP and joined Congress. Though Vinod contested in the 1999 Assembly election on Congress ticket, he lost to Fadnavis, who was then making his debut in the state polls.
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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This assembly polls mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split.
