The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena alliance has emerged victorious in the general election in Maharashtra, leading in 41 out of the state’s 48 seats. The Congress and its ally, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, are leading in six seats.
- Mumbai North: BJP’s Gopal Shetty defeated Congress’ actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar by over 4.6 lakh votes. Shetty’s 2014 victory—by over four lakh votes against Congress’ Sanjay Nirupam—was the BJP’s first from the constituency in 10 years.
- Mumbai North Central: BJP’s Poonam Mahajan renewed her term in the lower house against Congress’ Priya Dutt in this contest between daughters of former politicians. Mahajan won by over 1.3 lakh votes.
- Mumbai North West: Shiv Sena’s Gajanan Kirtikar won a second term in Parliament after leading by over 2.6 lakh votes against Congress’ Sanjay Nirupam. Kirtikar had defeated Congress’ Gurudas Kamat in 2014 by over 1.8 lakh votes.
- Mumbai North East: Nationalist Congress Party’s Sanjay Dina Patil lost to the BJP’s Manoj Kotak. Shiv Sena got BJP’s Kirit Somaiya replaced with Kotak. The margin of votes was at 2.26 lakh votes which compares to Somaiya’s 3.17-lakh victory margin in 2014.
- Mumbai South Central: Rahul Shewale of the Shiv Sena won by over 1.52 lakh votes against Congress’ Eknath Gaikwad. This exceeds his 2014 victory margin of 1.38 lakh votes.
- Mumbai South: Sitting Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant beat Congress’ two-time MP Milind Deora—who was endorsed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani and banker Uday Kotak—by over 1 lakh votes, the closest margin in all of Mumbai’s constituencies. Sawant defeated Deora by 1.28 lakh votes in 2014.
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