Mumbai: Ranajagjitsinha Padmasinha Patil of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the Tuljapur Vidhan Sabha in Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019. Patil defeated Chavan Madhukarrao Deorao of the Congress party.

The seat is located in Osmanabad district of the state, which falls in Marathwada zone. The assembly segment primarily features an electoral contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance and the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine. Polling in all the constituencies of in Maharashtra was held on October 21, 2019 along with assembly elections in Haryana. Khadakwasala Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019 in Maharashtra: Bhimrao (Anna) Dhondiba Tapkir of BJP Wins MLA Seat in Assembly Polls.

From the Tuljapur seat, the saffron coalition had fielded BJP's Rana Jagjit Singh Patil. The Opposition candidate from the constituency was Congress leader Chavan Madhukarrao Deorao. In 2014, the assembly segment was wrested between Congress leader Chavan Madhukarrao Deorao and National Congress Party (NCP) leader Gore Jeevanrao Vishwanathrao. As per the results declared by the Election Commission, the seat was won by Congress leader Chavan Madhukarrao Deorao by a margin of 29610 votes.

Ahead of the elections, all major surveys had predicted the BJP-Sena coalition to hold the edge. The sum of  major opinion polls have claimed a return of the incumbent ruling alliance in the forthcoming polls. Surveys have went to the extent of predicting 205-220 seats for the BJP-Sena alliance.

In both the states, the BJP is the incumbent ruling party. Devendra Fadnavis and Manohar Lal Khattar are likely to continue as the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Haryana, respectively.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Ranajagjitsinha Padmasinha Patil (Current MLA)BJP99034
Adv. Yavalkar Shailendra RameshwarappaBSP924
Chavan Madhukarrao DeoraoINC75865
Navnath Dashrath UapalekarIND435
Datta Sudam KambleIND432
Madhukar Deorav ChavanIND366
Ashok Haridas JagdaleVBA35383
Atish Ashok RasalIND344
Pandurang Dnyanoba ShindeIND228
Shaikh Baba FaijoddinIND205
Mahanandha Rajendra DudhbhateIND1460
Navgire Prashant PrakashMNS1431
Vishal Bhausaheb JanraoIND1031
Tanveer Ali Sayyad Ali KhatibIND1000
Anil Netaji JadhavarAkhil Bhartiya Ekata PartyNA
Tatya Pandharinath RodeBaliraja PartyNA
Taufik Abbas PatelTipu Sultan PartyNA
Mahendra (Kaka) DhurgudePrahar Janshakti PartyNA

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