Sindkheda Election Results: BJP's Jaykumar Jitendrasinh Wins

BJP’s Jaykumar Jitendrasinh won from the Sindkheda constituency with a vote margin of 95,884. While, NCP (SP)’s Bedse Sandeep Tryambakrao came in second by securing 55,608 votes.

Sindkheda assembly constituency is one of Maharashtra’s 288 assembly seats and had recently participated in a single-phase election on November 20. The candidate contesting from the constituency are Jaykumar Jitendrasinh Rawal of BJP, Bhausaheb Namdev Pawar of BSP, Jadhav- Patil Gulab Santosh of MNS and Bedse Sandeep Tryambakrao of NCP(SP).

Sindkheda is one of the six assembly segments under the Ahmednagar parliamentary seat.

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Sangram Arun Kaka Jagtap of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won the Ahmednagar City seat in the 2019 Assembly elections, defeating Anil Bhaiyya Ramkisan Rathod of the Shiv Sena (SHS) by a margin of 11,139 votes.​

The constituency has a predominantly urban population, with no rural voters recorded in the 2011 census.

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.

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

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.

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This assembly polls mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively.

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.