Fifteen candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance, including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Ajit Pawar in their own bases of Kopri-Pachpakhadi and Baramati, exceeded the one-lakh winning margin mark.
The 15 candidates include three from Shinde’s Shiv Sena, four from the Nationalist Congress Party, led by Ajit Pawar and eight from the BJP.
Despite some achieving winning margins of 90,000 votes, none of the opposing Maha Vikas Aghadi candidates took home a sizable victory.
Shivendraraje Bhonsale of the BJP defeated his closest opponent in Satara by 1.42 lakh votes, while Kashiram Vechan Pawara of the BJP won from Shirpur with a margin of 1,45,944 votes.
Kewalram Kale (106,859 votes from Melghat), Dilip Borse (129,297 votes from Baglan), Sanjay Upadhyay (100,257 votes from Borivali), Shankar Jagtap (103,865 votes from Chinchwad), Chandrakant Patil (112,041 votes from Kothrud) and Krishan Khopde (115288 votes from Nagpur East) are other BJP candidates who received more than one lakh votes.
Although this was less than the NCP leader’s 1.65 lakh vote victory margin in the 2019 elections, Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew and NCP (SP) candidate Yugendra Pawar in Baramati by 100,899 votes. Other members of Ajit Pawar’s party who were able to join the 1-lakh winning margin club were Sunil Shelke (1,08,565 votes from Maval), Ashutosh Kale (1,24,624 votes from Kopargaon) and Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde (1,40,224 votes from Parli).
In the Kopri-Pachpakhadi Assembly constituency, CM Shinde prevailed by a margin of 1,59,060 votes, while Pratap Sarnaik, the candidate of his party, won by 1,08,158 votes in the Ovala-Majiwada constituency.
Dada Bhuse, Shinde’s cabinet member, won by 1,06,606 votes from the Malegaon Outer seat.
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