HIGHLIGHTS
- Around 25,000 personnel have been deployed on counting duty, an election official said. Police have also made adequate arrangements to ensure the counting passes off peacefully
* Pankaja Gopinathrao Munde lost to NCP’s Dhananjay Panditrao Munde from Parli by 30,000 votes.
* Ajit Pawar wins Baramati with a margin of 1.62 Lakh votes, one of the highest margins in the Maharashtra assembly elections.
* BJP’s Manisha Chaudhary has been declared a winner from Dahisar constituency. She was contesting the election against Congress leader Arun Vasant Sawant.
*Â BJPÂ leader and Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde on Thursday accepted her defeat from Parli assembly seat at the hands of her cousin and NCP leader Dhananjay Munde. The result of the Parli seat has not been declared yet, but Pankaja was trailing behind Dhananjay Munde by almost 30,000 votes.
* According to the Election Commission trends, the BJP has won 5 seats and is leading in 97, Shiv Sena has won 5 seats and leading in 55, NCP has won 1 seat and leading in 54 and the Congress is leading in 44.
* NCP, the Congress and other allies will decide the future course of action. We will not go with Shiv Sena, says NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
* Shiv Sena’s Ajay Choudhary wins by a margin of 39,337 votes in Shivadi constituency.
* NCP president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the opposition has worked hard and all members of Congress-NCP and allies have delivered and given their best. “I thank them all. Power comes, power goes but it is important to remain committed to a cause and we thank people for the love they showed,” he added.
* In close fight, BJP candidate Kumar Ailani wins from Ulhasnagar seat defeating NCP’s Jyoti Kalani.
* Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday said his party and the BJP will form the next government in Maharashtra, and stressed the two parties will stick to the pre-decided “50-50” sharing formula.
* According to the trends in all the 288 Maharashtra assembly seats, the BJP is leading in 101 seats, Shiv Sena in 64, Congress in 40, NCP in 50 and Independents in 16 seats.
* Devendra Fadnavis, leading over his nearest Congress rival Ashish Deshmukh from Nagpur-South West seat, is set to return as Maharashtra chief minister
* According to the latest Election Commission trends in 283 of 288 assembly seats, the BJP is leading in 99 seats, Shiv Sena in 61, Congress in 41, NCP 49 and Independents in 15 seats.
* According to the latest Election Commission trends for Maharashtra, the BJP is leading in 99 constituencies, Shiv Sena in 60, NCP in 48 and the Congress in 40.
* Congress candidate from Solapur Central Praniti Shinde, daughter of former home minister and Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde, is trailing.
* Leader of opposition in the Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde was leading over his rival and BJP minister Pankaja Munde in Parli.
* Of the trends in 81 of 288 assembly seats available so far, the BJP is leading in 26, Shiv Sena in 22, while opposition Congress is ahead in seven seats and NCP in 17. The Independents were ahead in four seats.
* BJP leader and Maharashtra housing minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil leads in Shirdi Assembly seat over his nearest Congress rival Suresh Thorat.
* Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray establishes a comfortable lead in Worli assembly constituency where he is making his electoral debut. Aaditya is the first member of the Thackeray family to contest an election and a win for him could redefine the party’s politics in the state.
* As per the official trends in 59 of 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra, the BJP is leading in 21 seats, Shiv Sena in 13, Congress in 5, NCP in 15 and Independents in 4 seats.
* According to the Election Commission official trends for Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP is leading in 15 constituencies, Shiv Sena in 11 constituencies, Congress in 3 constituencies and the NCP is leading in 9 constituencies
* Shiv Sena MLA Balaji Kinikar is leading in Ambernath constituency while BJP leader Ravindra Chavan is leading in Kalyan rural seat.
* As per the official trends from the Election Commission, the NDA is leading in Maharashtra
* Trends at 8.30am show a BJP-Sena surge in Maharashtra assembly elections. The alliance is ahead with leads in 63 seats while the Congress-NCP is ahead in 22 seats. The majority mark in the state is 145.
* Early trends show that the BJP+ is leading in over 14 seats in Maharashtra; Congress ahead in two, so far
* Counting of votes for Maharashtra assembly polls and Satara Lok Sabha bypoll begins.
* Exit polls have predicted that the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will retain power comfortably.
* Counting of votes for the 288 Assembly segments will be conducted at 269 locations, the officials said.
* The polling held on Monday saw a voter turnout of 61.13 per cent, a dip from the 63.20 per cent recorded in 2014.
* The ruling BJP-Shiv Sena combine is arrayed against the opposition Congress-NCP with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi being the dominant player among the other parties.
