Result of the assembly elections in Dhamangaon Railway 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). Adsad Pratap Arunbhau of BJP has succeeded in winning the seat. Assembly Elections Results 2019: BJP-Shiv Sena Alliance Gets Clear Mandate in Maharashtra; Hung House in Haryana.

From the Dhamangaon Railway seat, the BJP has issued the ticket to Adsad Pratap Arunbhai, whereas, the Opposition candidate is Congress leader Jagtap Virendra Walmikrao . In 2014, Walmik 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
MAROTI NAMADEV SAHAREIND988
ADSAD PRATAP ARUNBHAU (Current MLA)BJP90832
SHAILESH DIWAKAR ROHANKARIND843
JAGTAP VIRENDRA WALMIKRAOINC81313
CHANDRDEEP ALIAS NANASAHEB SHANKARRAO DONGAREIND405
PRAVIN DINKARRAO GHUIKHEDKARIND2668
ABHIJIT PRAVIN DHEPEIND2553
SONWANE AWADHUT VISHWANATHIND249
NILAM DEVIDAS RANGARKARIND239
VISHWAKARMA NILESH TARACHANDVBA23779
GAURAV SUDHAKARRAO SAWALAKHEIND229
DESHMUKH PRAVINYA PRAMODRAOIND224
SAVITA BHIMRAO KATAKTALWAREBSP2196
SANDEEP BABULAL MESHRAMIND133
FIROZ PATHANIND1030
UTTAMRAO JUNGLUJI GAWAIRepublican Paksha (Khoripa)NA
KHOBRAGADE HARSHWARDHAN BALIRAMJIBahujan Vikas AaghadiNA
CHAUDHARI WASUDEO KASHINATHRAOJan Adhikar PartyNA
VISHAL UTTAMRAO GHADGEAkhil Bharat Hindu MahasabhaNA
SUNITA VIJAY RAIBOLEPeoples Party of India (Democratic)NA

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