Ralegaon Election Result: BJP's Ashok Ramaji Wooike Wins A Third Term

In their fourth rematch, BJP candidate Ashok Ramaji Wooike secured the Ralegaon Assembly seat with 1,01,398 votes, defeating Congress candidate Vasant Chindhuji Purke who bagged 98,586 votes. The margin between the two candidates is 2,812 votes.

Wooike won the seat defeating Purke by a margin of 9,824 votes. The BJP had a vote share of 45.95 percent in 2019 in this seat.

In the 2014 assembly elections in the state, Wooike defeated the Congress candidate by a margin of 38,750 votes. Purke had won the seat in the 2009 Maharashtra assembly elections defeating Wooike, who contested as an independent candidate, with a margin of 40,418 votes.

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.

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.

As the ruling Mahayuti alliance hopes to continue in power, opposition Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) strives for a strong comeback.

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).