Former Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray won the Worli seat, defeating Rajya Sabha MP Milind Murli Deora by a margin of 8,801 votes.
Thackeray has secured 63,324 votes, according to Election Commission data. He had taken a lead with 21,725 votes for the seat in the sixth round of counting.
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Deora, who was fielded by the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, was in the lead earlier, but trailed behind with 54,523 votes.
It was a three-way battle in the high profile seat. Thackeray, running for a second term, faced off against uncle Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena candidate Sandip Deshpande and Shinde Sena's pick Deora.
Thackeray had banked on projects like the Worli–Sewri link and his Covid-19 pandemic work, while Deora brought deep-rooted family ties to the seat. The latter was with the Congress for a long time, before he joined Eknath Shinde's party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
In the 2019 elections, Aaditya Thackeray won the seat with a margin of 89,248 votes.
Meanwhile, trends show Thackeray's MVA coalition trailing in the battle for the state.
NDTV's Poll-of-Polls forecasts 155 seats for the BJP-led Mahayuti, 120 for Congress-led MVA, and 13 for others.
The Maharashtra assembly election has been a fight between the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)—comprising Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction), Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (SP), and the Congress—and the Mahayuti alliance comprising Shiv Sena, NCP and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The assembly has 288 seats and any political formation requires 145 to form a simple majority government.
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