Nashik Central Election Result: BJP's Devyani Suhas Phaarande Leads

In Nashik Central, BJP’s Devyani Suhas Phaarande is leading ahead with the margin of 9,981 votes. Shive Sena UBT’s Gite Vasant Nivrutti is trailing behind with 30,425 votes.

Nashik Central went to polls on November 20. A total of 10 candidates were in the fray for the election. Major contestants from the constituency were Gite Vasant Nivrutti of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Devyani Suhas Pharande of BJP, and Ravindra Vasant Aute of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). During the last assembly election, Pharande won the seat by the margin of 28,398 votes, and defeated Hemlata Ninad Patil of INC.

During the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, SSUBT (Shiv Sena UBT) was the leading party in this assembly segment. The Nashik Lok Sabha seat was won by Rajabhau (Parag) Prakash Waje of SSUBT by defeating Godse Hemant Tukaram of SS.

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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.

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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.