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MUMBAI SUBURBAN: Polling staff show their ink-marked fingers after voting through postal ballots for the Maharashtra Assembly elections at Ghat Kopar in Mumbai. (ANI Photo)
The Election Commission today announced the results of Mumbai Suburban District and Mumbai City Maharashtra constituencies. These assembly constituencies include Borivali, Dahisar, Magthane, Kandioli, Charkop, Malad, Jogeshwari East, Dundoshi, Gorgaon, Versova, Andheri West, Andheri East, Milind, Vikhroli, Bhandup West, Ghatkopar West, Ghatkopar East, Mankhar Shivaji Nagar, Vele. Parr, Willie Parr, included. Kurla, Kalina, Wandre East, Wandre West, Anushaktinagar and Chembur in the suburban district of Mumbai. …read more
Assembly constituencies like Dharavi (SC), Sivan Koliwada, Wadala, Maham, Worli, Shivadi, Byculla, Malabar Hill, Mumbaidevi, Colaba in Mumbai City district are part of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra for which the counting of votes is being declared today. .
Voting for the Maharashtra Assembly elections took place in a single phase on November 20. The 2024 results come amid significant political changes in the state. In the 2019 assembly elections, the BJP-led alliance won a majority.
The ruling Mahawati alliance, which includes the BJP, the Nationalist Congress Party, and the Shiv Sena, is relying on initiatives like the ‘Maji Galdi Behan’ scheme to keep women in power.
BJP slogans -‘If you talk, you will hang and’If there is one, it is safe.” This has prompted opposition parties to accuse Mahawati of polarizing votes along religious lines.
In response, the MVA coalition has focused on issues such as social justice, caste-based census, and constitutional protection to counter the ruling coalition’s rhetoric.
Today’s election results, which you can track using this blog, will show how voters in the Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai City and the rest of the state view the battle for assembly seats.
This Maharashtra Assembly election saw a 28 percent increase in the number of candidates compared to 2019, with 4,136 contesting, up from 3,239. Of these, 2,086 were independent.
More than 150 constituencies saw rebels contest against the official nominees of their parties, the Mahawati and MVA alliances. This year, Maharashtra had 1,00,186 polling booths, up from 96,654 in 2019. In Mumbai, police imposed restrictions within a 300-meter radius of all 36 counting centers across the city.
