Bhiwandi East Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Maharashtra: Sitting MLA, Candidates For Assembly Elections 2019, Results And Winners
This time too, the BJP has trusted Rupesh Laxman Mhatre by giving him the ticket from this seat. The Opposition's candidate from the Bhiwandi East seat is Congress candidate Santosh Manjayya Shetty. Bhiwandi East seat will go to polls in the single-phase elections to be held on October 21. Result will be announced on October 24.
Result of the assembly elections in Bhiwandi East constituency, along with all other assembly segments of Maharashtra, will be declared by the Election Commission on October 24. The Bhiwandi East seat will go to polls in the single-phase elections to be held on October 21. The electoral contest here is primarily between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance and the Opposition's coalition of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Rupesh Laxman Mhatre won the 2014 Assembly Election from this seat on Shiv Sena ticket and is the sitting MLA. Who Will Win Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019? Here's What ABP News Opinion Poll Results Predict.
This time too, the Shiv Sena has trusted Rupesh Laxman Mhatre by giving him the ticket from this seat. The Opposition's candidate from the Bhiwandi East seat is Congress candidate Santosh Manjayya Shetty. The Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi candidate is Budesh Laxman Jadhav and MNS has fielded Manoj Waman Gulvi from this seat.
In the 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections, the saffron alliance of BJP-Sena returned to power after a hiatus of 15 years. Both the parties had contested without a pre-poll pact, and had ended up winning 122 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress and the NCP -- which also fought without a pre-election alliance -- were reduced to 42 and 41 seats, respectively. Following the polls, the BJP and Sena sealed a post-election coalition to jointly form the government.
Along with Maharashtra, the state of Haryana -- with 90 legislative assembly seats -- will also go to polls on October 21. In both the states, the pollsters have given the edge to the BJP. The party was predicted to win up to 78 constituencies in Haryana in one of the surveys. In Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance was predicted to bag up to 205 out of the 288 constituencies, as per one of the opinion polls.
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Najir Ahamad Siddiq Ansari | BSP | 551 |
| Rupesh Laxman Mhatre | SHS | 44223 |
| Santosh Manjayya Shetty | INC | 32198 |
| Santosh Lachhayya Shetty | IND | 249 |
| Harun Jais Khan | IND | 216 |
| Budhesh Laxman Jadhav | VBA | 2065 |
| Sayed Kashif | IND | 191 |
| Momin Rais A. Khalik | IND | 164 |
| Manoj Waman Gulvi | MNS | 1492 |
| Dr. Nooruddin N. Ansari | IND | 112 |
| Narayan Pratap Vanga | Bahujan Maha Party | NA |
| Rais Kasam Shaikh | Samajwadi Party | NA |
| Salam Bastiwala | Samajwadi Forward Bloc | NA |
| Habibur Rehman Khan | Peace Party | NA |
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Rupesh Laxman Mhatre (Current MLA) | Shiv Sena | 33541 |
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