Kankavli Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Nitesh Narayan Rane of BJP Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls

Mumbai: Nitesh Narayan Rane of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) has won the Kankavli Assembly constituency in Maharashtra by defeating the (Bahujan Samaj Party) BSP candidate Vijay Suryakant Salkar.

As per the election commission website, the schedule of polls in Maharashtra points that nomination papers for the candidature were filed till October 4. Following this, the nomination papers were scrutinised on October 5, and the aspiring candidate withdrew candidature till October 7. The polling took place on October 21 and Election Commission announced results on October 24. The new government in Maharashtra should be formed before November 9 because the current assembly expires on that day. Rajapur Vidhan Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Rajan Prabhakar Salvi of Shiv Sena Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

The Kankavli Assembly seat in Maharashtra went to polls on October 21. The counting of votes for the Kankavli Assembly seat in Maharashtra took place on Thursday, October 24 and the results were announced on the same day itself.

From the BJP-Shiv Sena camp, the candidate contesting from Kankavli seat was BJP Leader and former Congress leader Nitesh Narayan Rane. The Opposition had issued the ticket to Congress' Sushil Amrutrao Rane from the constituency. In the last assembly polls held in 2014, Nitesh Narayan Rane of BJP,  who was fought from National Congress Party (NCP) party had won the elections.

Ahead of the elections, pollsters have given the edge to the BJP in both Maharashtra and Haryana. In the latter, the party is predicting to win as much as 78 out of the 90 constituencies, as per one of the surveys. In Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance is predicted to win upto 205-220 constituencies.

In the 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP and the Shiv Sena had contested without a pre-poll alliance. The two parties ended up winning 123 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress was restricted to 42 and the NCP managed to win 41 constituencies. Following the polls, the BJP and Sena came together to form the government.

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