Mumbai: Deepak Vasantrao Kesarkar of Shiv Sena has won the Sawantwadi Assembly constituency in Maharashtra by defeating the Independent candidate Rajan Krishna Teli.

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. Kudal Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Naik Vaibhav Vijay of Shiv Sena Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

The Sawantwadi Assembly seat in Maharashtra went to polls on October 21. The counting of votes for the Sawantwadi Assembly seat in Maharashtra took place on Thursday, October 24 and the results were announced on the same day itself.

The Sawantwadi constituency is located in State of Maharashtra. The seat falls in Sindhudurg district of the state. In the 2014 assembly elections, the seat was won by Deepak Vasant Kesarkar of Shiv Sena. He was declared the winner by a margin of 41,192 votes. The second runner-up was Teli Rajan Krishna of BJP party.

Ahead of the elections, prospects are rife for the BJP-Sena coalition from all constituencies of Maharashtra, as the alliance had recently clean swept the Lok Sabha polls. In the general elections held six months ago, the state witnessed a decisive Narendra Modi wave, which allowed the saffron coalition to bag 41 out of the 48 parliamentary constituencies. Rajapur Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Rajan Prabhakar Salvi of Shiv Sena Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

In 2014, the BJP-Sena combine had succeeded in ending their 15-year hiatus from power in Maharashtra. The alliance trumped the then incumbent ruling regime of Congress-NCP by a significant margin. The BJP and Sena had then contested without a pre-poll pact, and had succeeded to win 123 and 63 seats, respectively.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Deepak Vasantrao Kesarkar (Current MLA)SHS69784
Rajan Krishna TeliIND56556
Baban SalgaonkarNCP5396
Sudhakar MangaonkarBSP528
Prakash Gopal RedkarMNS3409
Satyawan Uttam JadhavVBA1450
Ajinkya GawadeIND1388
Dadu Alias Raju Ganesh KadamBahujan Mukti PartyNA
Yashvant alias Sunil Vasant PednekarBahujan Maha PartyNA

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