Mumbai: Ram Vitthal Satpute of BJP has won the Malshiras Assembly constituency in Maharashtra by defeating the NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) candidate Uttamrao Shivdas Jankar.

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 papers 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.

The Malshiras Assembly seat in Maharashtra went to polls on October 21. The counting of votes for the Malshiras Assembly seat in Maharashtra took place on Thursday, October 24 and the results were announced on the same day itself. Pandharpur Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Bhalake Bharat Tukaram of NCP Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

From the Malshiras (SC) seat, the saffron coalition had fielded BJP's Ram Vitthal Satpute. The Opposition candidate from the constituency was NCP leader Uttamrao Shivdas Jankar. In 2014, the assembly segment was wrested between National Congress Party (NCP) leader Dolas Hanumant Jagannath and Independent candidate Khandagale Anant Jaykumar. As per the results declared by the Election Commission, the seat was won by NCP leader Dolas Hanumant Jagannath by a margin of 6,245 votes. Solapur South Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Deshmukh Subhash Sureshchandra of BJP Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

Ahead of the elections, the BJP-Sena coalition was being predicted to hold the edge. The sum of major opinion polls had claimed a return of the incumbent ruling alliance in the forthcoming polls. Surveys have went to the extent of predicting 205-220 seats for the BJP-Sena alliance.

2014 malsiras Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Hanumant Jagannath Dolas (Current MLA)NCP77179

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