Maharashtra Election Result: Counting of votes for Maharashtra Assembly elections will begin at 8 am today. All eyes are on the outcome of the contest between the ruling Mahayuti and the MVA which is trying to return to power. Election officials said that the final turnout in the voting held on November 20 was 66.05 percent whereas in 2019 this figure was 61.1 percent. A total of 288 counting centers have been set up to count the votes, which also includes one center for the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election.
Who fought on how many seats?
In the grand alliance, Bharatiya Janata Party had fielded candidates on 149 assembly seats, Shiv Sena on 81 seats and Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had fielded candidates on 59 constituencies. In the opposition MVA alliance, Congress fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (Ubatha) 95 and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) 86 candidates.
Parties like Bahujan Samaj Party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) also contested the elections, in which BSP fielded 237 candidates and AIMIM 17 candidates. This time the number of candidates has increased by 28 percent compared to the 2019 assembly elections in the state. This year, 4,136 candidates contested the elections, while 3,239 candidates were in the fray in the 2019 elections.
