Mumbai, October 25: The result has been declared for Gangapur Vidhan Sabha constituency on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bamb Prashant Bansilal defeated the nearest Nationalist Congress Party candidate Mane Patil Santosh Annasaheb by a margin of 34,971 votes. The Gangapur assembly seat is a part of Maharashtra's Aurangabad parliamentary constituency. Assembly Elections Results 2019: BJP-Shiv Sena Alliance Gets Clear Mandate in Maharashtra; Hung House in Haryana.

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.

The main contest for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly was between ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- which has allied with Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which contested the elections in alliance with Congress.

Along with Maharashtra, the state of Haryana went also went to polls on October 21. In both states, the pollsters had given the edge to the BJP. 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
Bharat Asaram FulareIND805
Mane Patil Santosh AnnasahebNCP72222
Narayan Bhanudas PawarIND575
Jadhav Bharat SukajiIND527
Babasaheb Vishwanath ThoratIND359
Devidas Ratan KasabeIND306
Babasaheb Arjun GaikwadIND282
Ankush Baburao KalwaneVBA15951
Acchelal Ramnaresh YadavBSP1445
Shaikh Gulam Ali Mohmmad HussainIND1273
Bamb Prashant Bansilal (Current MLA)BJP107193
Kashinath Haribhau VetalSwatantra Bharat PakshaNA
Pravin Himmatrao RanyevalePeoples Party of India (Democratic)NA
Rahul Shivram SonuleBahujan Mukti PartyNA

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