Chetan Vitthal Tupe of NCP has won the Hadapsar Assembly constituency in Maharashtra by defeating the BJP candidate Yogesh Kundalik Tilekar. Hadapsar is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra, which went polls in a single-phase on October 21. The contest here is primarily between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena combine and the Opposition alliance of Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The Election Commission declared the poll results of the Hadapsar seat, along with all other assembly segments on October 24.

As per the election commission website, the schedule of polls in Maharashtra points that nomination papers for the candidature were filed till October 4. Following this, the nomination paper were scrutinised on October 5, and the aspiring candidate withdrew candidature till October 7. The polling took place on October 21 and Election Commission announced results on October 24. The new government in Maharashtra should be formed before November 9 because the current assembly expires on that day. Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019: BJP Gets Lion's Share, Shiv Sena Agrees on Fewer Seats.

Ahead of the upcoming elections, the BJP-Sena combine has been given the edge by all major pre-poll surveys. A recent opinion poll by the ABP News-CVoter went on to predict upto 205 out of the 288 seats for the saffron alliance. The Congress-NCP coalition was, meanwhile, predicted to suffer a rout worse than 2014.

In the last assembly elections, the BJP and Shiv Sena had contested without a pre-poll alliance. They had won 123 and 63 seats respectively and went on to form a post-election pact to jointly form the government. The Congress and the NCP were restricted to 42 and 42 seats, respectively.

2019 hadapsar Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Chetan Vitthal Tupe (Current MLA)NCP92326
Yogesh Kundalik TilekarBJP89506
Ghansham Anad HakkeVBA7570
Anjum Zakariya InamdarIND367
Vasant Krushna MoreMNS34809
Rakesh Harku WalmikiIND256
Subhash Kashinath SaravadeIND253
Arjun Laxman ShirsatIND230
Mohammad Jamir ShaikhIND228
Anup Jalndar ShindeIND164
Tosif ShaikhIND164
Deepak Mahadev JadhavBSP1223
Krupal Krishnarao PaluskarPrabuddha Republican PartyNA
Zahid Ibrahim ShaikhAIMIMNA

2014 hadapsar Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Yogesh Kundalik Tilekar (Current MLA)BJP82629

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