Mumbai: Rajendra Vitthal Raut independent candidate has won the Barshi Vidhan Sabha in Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019. Raut defeated Adv. Dilip Gangadhar Sopal of the Shiv Sena party.

Barshi located in Solapur district of the state. The seat falls in the Maharashtra State of Republic of India. The political battle here was primarily between the two major coalitions -- the ruling faction of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena and the Opposition alliance of Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Results of the assembly elections in the seat, along with other assembly segments of Maharashtra, declared by the Election Commission on October 24. Madha Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Shinde Babanrao Vitthalrao of NCP Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

From the Tuljapur seat, the saffron coalition had fielded Shiv Sena's Dilip Gangadhar Sopal. The Opposition had issued the ticket to NCP's Niranjan Prakash Bhumkar from the constituency. In the last assembly polls held in 2014, Dilip Gangadhar Sopal of National Congress Party (NCP) party had won the elections.

Ahead of the elections, pollsters have given the edge to the BJP in both Maharashtra and Haryana. In the latter, the party was predicting to win as much as 78 out of the 90 constituencies, as per one of the surveys. In Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance was predicted to win upto 205-220 constituencies. Karmala Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Independent Candidate Sanjaymama Vitthalrao Shinde Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

In the 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP and the Shiv Sena had contested without a pre-poll alliance. The two parties ended up winning 123 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress was restricted to 42 and the NCP managed to win 41 constituencies. Following the polls, the BJP and Sena came together to form the government.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Rajendra Vitthal Raut (Current MLA)IND95482
Adv. Dilip Gangadhar SopalSHS92406
Rajesh Madhukar BangarIND641
Anand Ramchandra KashidIND594
Adv. Suhas Tulshidas KambleIND555
Mahadev Eknath KakadeIND460
Nagnath Abhimanu ChavanMNS2718
Jagannath Nivrutti MundeIND211
Bhumkar Niranjan PrakashNCP16119
Kanishk Suresh ShindeBSP1156
Vishal Bahubali KalaskarIND11427
Atul Bapurav ItkarINDNA
Kamilauddin Ajimoddin KaziINDNA
Babita Lakhan KaleAkhil Bharat Hindu MahasabhaNA

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