Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and former Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Nagpur South West seat, securing 1,29,401 votes, according to Election Commission data.
Congress' Prafulla Gudadhe lost out on the seat by a margin of 39,710 votes, securing 89,691 votes.
The Nagpur South West constituency in Maharashtra is considered the stronghold of BJP. Fadnavis has held the Nagpur South West assembly seat for three consecutive terms since 2009.
Maharashtra's total electors have reached over 9.70 crore, and among them, approximately 22.2 lakh are first-time voters aged between 18 and 19 years, according to the latest data from the Election Commission of India.
Maharashtra witnessed a record voter turnout in the state Assembly elections on Nov. 20 with the overall voting percentage reaching 65.02%, the highest in the last 30 years since the 1995 polls.
Despite muted participation from urban voters, the Maharashtra Assembly elections saw more voter turnout than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where the voting percentage stood at 61.39%.
The Nagpur district witnessed a voter turnout of 61.60%, while for the Nagpur South West constituency the figure was 54.59% in the elections held on Nov. 20. Voting for all the 288 seats in Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 was held in a single phase on Wednesday.
In the 2019 assembly election, Fadnavis won from the constituency with a margin of more than 49,000 votes.
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