Result of the assembly elections in Nalasopara constituency, along with all other assembly segments of Maharashtra, will be declared by the Election Commission on October 24. The Nalasopara 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) along with the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA). Kshitji Hitendra Thakur is the sitting MLA from this seat. Who Will Win Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019? Here's What ABP News Opinion Poll Results Predict.
From the Nalasopara seat, the Shiv Sena has issued ticket to Pradeep Sharma. Pradeep Sharma is challenging Thakur, the sitting MLA from the seat. Kshitij Thakur won the 2009 and 2014 Assembly Elections from the 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 |
---|---|---|
SUSHANT MADHUKAR PAWAR | IND | 663 |
Dr. VIJAYA DATTARAM SAMEL | IND | 534 |
AMAR KISAN KAWLE | IND | 407 |
PRAVIN PRAKASH GAIKWAD | VBA | 3487 |
OMKAR SUDHAKAR SHETTY | IND | 259 |
SATISH SITARAM WAREKAR | IND | 171 |
PARESH SUKUR GHATAL | IND | 1082 |
PRADEEP RAMESHWAR SHARMA | SHS | 106139 |
SALMAN BALUCH | BSP | 1044 |
ARORA RAKESH VISHWANATH | Hindustan Janta Party | NA |
MOHSIN SHARIF SHAIKH | Bahujan Maha Party | NA |
HITESH PRADEEP RAUT | Sangharsh Sena | NA |
KSHITIJ HITENDRA THAKUR | Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi | NA |
MUZAFFAR ZULKAR VOHRA | IND | NA |
MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
---|---|---|
Kshitij Hitendra Thakur (Current MLA) | BVA | 113566 |
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