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Revision as of 11:15, 24 October 2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
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All 288 seats to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
145 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Devendra Fadnavis Uddhav Thackeray Prithviraj Chavan
Party BJP SHS INC
Alliance Maha-Yuti Maha-Yuti Maha-Aghadi
Leader's seat Nagpur South West Did not contest Karad South
Last election 122 seats, 31.15% votes 63 seats, 19.3% votes 42 seats, 18.0% votes
 
Leader Jayant Patil Raj Thackeray Prakash Ambedkar
Party NCP MNS VBA
Alliance Maha-Aghadi  –  –
Leader's seat Islampur Did not contest Did not contest
Last election 41 seats, 17.2% votes 1 seat Did not contest
 
Leader Abdul Waris Pathan
Party AIMIM
Alliance  –
Leader's seat Byculla
Last election 2 seats
Legislative Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chief Minister

Devendra Fadnavis
BJP




Legislative Assembly election was held in Maharashtra on 21 October 2019 from 7 am to 6 pm to elect the 288 members of Legislative Assembly.[1] The results will be announced on 24 October 2019.

Background

The previous Assembly elections were held in October 2014. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena formed a majority government, with Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) becoming Chief Minister. [2]

Election schedule

Nagpur (South) voters gather to look up their names in voters' list on voting day morning.

The Election Commission announced the election dates for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra.[3]

Poll Event Schedule
Notification date 27 September 2019
Last Date for filing Nominations 4 October 2019
Scrutiny of Nominations 5 October 2019
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature 7 October 2019
Date of Poll 21 October 2019
Counting of Votes 24 October 2019

Political parties and campaign

National Democratic Alliance

Pre-election alliance of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was formed with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SS).

United Progressive Alliance

Pre-election alliance of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed with Indian National Congress (INC) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). INC filled nominations on 145 seats and NCP on 123. Other parties that supported the UPA alliance were Raju Shetti-led Swabhimani Shetkari Saghtana (4 seats), the Peasants and Workers Party (6 seats), Samajwadi Party (3 seats), Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (3 seats) and Ravi Rana-led Swabhiman Sanghatana (1 seat). The opposition finalized common nominee of 2 seats of Mankhatao and Kothrud constituency.[4] Peoples Republican Party (3 seats) and Bahujan Republican Socialist Party (2 seats) will be fielding their candidates on the symbols of INC and NCP.[4] The Samajwadi Party later rescinded its support for the alliance, to contest for 7 seats separately instead.[5]

Others

Various prominent parties in the Maharashtra's political scenario did not join hands with either of the two alliances. This includes Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi that will be contesting all 288 seats.[6] All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will be contesting from 44 seats, mostly from Muslim predominant constituencies.[7] Maharashtra Navnirman Sena will be contesting from 103 seats.[8]

A total of 5543 nominations were received by Election Commission through out the state of which only 3239 candidatures were left after others where rejected or nominations were withdrawn. The Chiplun constituency has the least candidates, 3 number of candidates, whereas Nanded South constituency has maximum of 38 candidates.[9]

Coalition Parties Seats contested
NDA
(288)[10] 		style="background-color:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | Bharatiya Janata Party 152[10]
style="background-color: Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color" | Shiv Sena 124[10]
NDA Others 12[10]
UPA
(288) 		style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | Indian National Congress 145[4]
style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color" | Nationalist Congress Party 123[4]
UPA Others 20[4][11]
 – Other 2663
Total 3239[9]

Voter statistics

Opinion Polls

Vote share

Publishing Date Polling Agency
NDA UPA Others
26 September 2019 ABP News - C Voter[12] 46 % 30 % 24 %
18 October 2019 IANS - C Voter[13] 47.3 % 38.5 % 14.3 %

Seat projections

Publishing Date Polling Agency
NDA UPA Others
26 September 2019 ABP News - C Voter[12] 205 55 28
27 September 2019 NewsX - Pollstrat[14] 210 49 29
17 October 2019 Republic Media - Jan Ki Baat[15] 200 60-77 8-11
18 October 2019 ABP News - C Voter[16] 194 86 8
18 October 2019 IANS - C Voter[13] 182-206 72-98  –

Exit polls

Polling Agency[17]
NDA UPA Others
India Today - Axis 166-194 72-90 22-34
News18 - IPSOS 243 41 4
Republic Media - Jan Ki Baat 216-230 52-59 8-12
ABP News - C Voter 204 69 15
NewsX - Pollstrat 188-200 74-89 6-10
Times Now 230 48 10

Results

Results by alliance and party

Results by constituency

See also

References

  1. ^ "What is Uddhav Thackeray's plan for Maharashtra Assembly elections?". dailyo.in. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  2. ^ "MAHARASHTRA ASSEMBLY ELECTION VOTER LIST". 29 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Election Dates 2019 updates: Haryana, Maharashtra voting on October 21, results on October 24". businesstoday.in.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Maharashtra assembly elections: With 144 seats for Congressand 122 for NCP, other allies get 22". Times of India. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Maharashtra Samajwadi Party Abu Asim Azmi: Have been betrayed by Congress". The Indian Express. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Prakash Ambedkar's Party Announces Maharashtra Assembly Poll Candidates". NDTV. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. ^ "AIMIM looks to contest 44 assembly seats in Maharashtra". Live Mint. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Maha polls: MNS, VBA up for a fight". Hindustan Times. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  9. ^ a b "3239 candidates in fray for Maharashtra assembly elections". Economic Times. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  10. ^ a b c d "Maharashtra polls: Final BJP-Shiv Sena seat sharing numbers out". India Today. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Maharashtra elections: SP walks away, CPM says not part of alliance". The Indian Express. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Maharashtra opinion poll 2019: BJP, Shiv Sena likely to retain power with two-thirds majority". The Financial Express. 22 September 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Survey Predicts Landslide BJP Victory in Haryana, Big Win in Maharashtra". News18. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  14. ^ "NewsX-Pollstart Opinion Poll: BJP likely to retain power in Haryana and Maharashtra". NewsX. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  15. ^ "Maharashtra Opinion Poll: BJP projected for single-majority on its own". Republic World. 17 October 2019.
  16. ^ "Opinion poll predicts BJP win in Haryana, Maharashtra". Deccan Herald. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  17. ^ "Exit polls predict big win for BJP in Maharashtra, Haryana: Live Updates". Live Mint. Live Mint. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  18. ^ "Maha-battle between Maha-Yuti and Maha-Aghadi". Outlook India. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  19. ^ "A factsheet on Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly Elections". Live Mint. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
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