Eknath Shinde election results 2024 Highlights: Incumbent Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on 23 November won the Kopri-Pachpakhadi Assembly seat in Maharashtra by defeating Kedar Prakash Dighe from Shiv Sena (UBT) by over 1,20,717 votes, as per ECI at 4.30 pm.
In the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024, Eknath Shinde got 1,59,060 votes against Kedar Prakash Dighe who got 38,343 votes.
According to the Election Commission of India website at 4 pm, the Mahayuti alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading with 228 seats in Maharashtra, while Congress-led MVA is leading in 51 Assembly seats. The majority mark is 145 out of 288 seats being under fray.
The 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections have been crucial for Eknath Shinde, especially in his stronghold, the Kopri-Pachpakhadi seat in Thane.
The Kopri-Pachpakhadi Assembly seat in Maharashtra is amongst the 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies which is located in Thane district and 288 in the entire state.
It is a very high-stakes seat as CM Eknath Shinde, sitting chief minister, is contesting against Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena Kedar Dighe.
In the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019, Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shine defeated Congress’ Sanjay Ghadigaonkar by a margin of 89,300 votes. At that time, Eknath Shinde was the member of united Shiv Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray.
But after two years, the Shiv Sena broke into two fractions – Shiv Sena (UBT) and Shiv Sena (ES).
In the 2024 Assembly elections, BJP, breakaway faction of the NCP under Ajit Pawar and breakaway faction of Shiv Sena under Eknath Shinde are contesting together under the Mahayuti alliance against MVA.
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The overall results will be declared once the counting of all the votes ends and winner is announced on all the seats.
It is expected that by Saturday noon or by evening, a winner will be clear. A party or a coalition needs to win at least 145 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly.
Most exit poll results predicted BJP-led alliance's return in Maharashtra.
The exit poll conducted by People's Pulse gave NDA's Mahayuti a whopping 175-195 seats while giving only 85-112 seats to MVA and 7-12 to others in Maharashtra. On the other hand, the poll conducted by Electoral Edge predicted MVA to win 150 seats while giving 121 seats to BJP-led Mahayuti and 20 seats to others in Maharashtra.
Lokshahi Rudra has predicted a close fight between Mahayuti and MVA in Maharashtra and gave them 128-142 seats and 125-140 respectively. It gave others 18-23 seats.
