Result of the assembly elections in Deoli constituency, along with other assembly segments of Maharashtra, has been declared by the Election Commission. The seat went to polls in the single-phase elections held on October 21. The electoral contest here was primarily between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance and the Opposition's coalition of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Sulbha Sanjay Khodke of the Congress has succeeded in winning the seat. Ranjit Prataprao Kamble of the Congress has been declared the winner. Assembly Elections Results 2019: BJP-Shiv Sena Alliance Gets Clear Mandate in Maharashtra; Hung House in Haryana.

From the Deoli seat, the Shiv Sena has issued the ticket to Samir Sureshrao Deshmukh , whereas, the Opposition candidate is Congress leader Ranjit Prataprao Kamble. In 2014, Kamble Ranjit Prataprao of the Congress party had won the elections.

In the 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections, the saffron alliance of BJP-Sena returned to power after a hiatus of 15 years. Both the parties had contested without a pre-poll pact, and had ended up winning 122 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress and the NCP -- which also fought without a pre-election alliance -- were reduced to 42 and 41 seats, respectively. Following the polls, the BJP and Sena sealed a post-election coalition to jointly form the government.

Along with Maharashtra, the state of Haryana -- with 90 legislative assembly seats -- also went to polls on October 21. In both the states, the pollsters had given the edge to the BJP. The party was predicted to win up to 78 constituencies in Haryana in one of the surveys. In Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance was predicted to bag up to 205 out of the 288 constituencies, as per one of the opinion polls.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Siddharatha Bhojraj DoifodeVBA8324
Kiran Marotrao PariseIND802
Dilip Bajranglal AgrawalIND8016
Ranjit Prataprao Kamble (Current MLA)INC75345
Mohan Ramraoji RaikwarBSP5166
Nighot DnyaneshwarIND507
Rajesh BakaneIND39541
Kapilvruksha Babarao GodghateIND390
Samir DeshmukhSHS30978
Mhaiskar Umesh MahadeoraoIND1617
Chetan Ratanlal SahuSardar Vallabhbhai Patel PartyNA
Nitin Pundlikrao WankhedeSambhaji Brigade PartyNA
Rajesh Champat SawarkarPrahar Janshakti PartyNA
Harshpal Arun MendheBahujan Mukti PartyNA

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