Mumbai, October 16: The result has been declared Pathri Sabha constituency on Thursday. Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Warpudkar Suresh Ambadasrao defeated the nearest Bharatiya Janata Party nominee Phad Mohan Madhavrao. The last MLA from Pathri Assembly seat was independent candidate Fhad Mohan Madhavrao. 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
PHAD MOHAN MADHAVRAOBJP90851
DR JAGDISH BALASAHEB SHINDEIND8551
VILAS SAHEB BABARVBA21744
GAUTAM VAIJNATHRAO UJGAREBSP1515
MUJEEB ALAM BADARE ALAMIND1222
CHAVAN NARAYAN TUKARAMIND1176
JAIJAIRAM SHRIRAM VIGHNEIND1155
WARPUDKAR SURESH AMBADASRAO (Current MLA)INC105625
AJAY SADASHIV SOLANKEAmbedkarist Republican PartyNA
MOIZ ANSARI ABDUL QUADERBahujan Mukti PartyNA

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