It was a jam-packed Saturday (November 23), with the Assembly election results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand being announced.
Maharashtra witnessed a historic victory for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, which dominated the Assembly elections by winning 234 of the 288 seats, leaving the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) trailing far behind.
The BJP alone secured an impressive 132 seats, with a 26.22 per cent vote share. Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction, a key ally in the NDA, contributed 57 seats with a 12.38 per cent vote share. The NCP won 41 seats, garnering 9 per cent of the vote share.
In stark contrast, the MVA alliance faced a crushing defeat. Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction managed to win only 20 seats, with a 9.96 per cent vote share. Congress secured 16 seats, receiving a 12.42 per cent vote share, while Sharad Pawar’s NCP, which remained with the MVA, won just 10 seats with an 11.28 per cent vote share.
The Jan Mukti Morcha-led INDIA coalition stormed to power for the second time in a row in Jharkhand, decisively defeating the BJP-headed NDA by winning 56 seats in the 81-member Assembly.
In the 2019 elections, the INDIA alliance, which includes the Congress, claimed victory in 47 seats. The JMM emerged as the single-largest party with 34 seats, while its alliance partners Congress and RJD won 16 and four constituencies, respectively. The CPI(ML) Liberation secured two seats.
The NDA, on the other hand, managed just 24 seats, with the BJP winning 21. Its allies—AJSU Party, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), and JD(U)—secured one seat each.
Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who is currently out on bail in a money-laundering case, ran a campaign centred on his government’s social welfare schemes while alleging a conspiracy by the BJP-led central government.
The BJP, in contrast, focused its campaign on allegations of corruption within Soren’s administration and infiltration from Bangladesh.
While it is decided that Hemant Soren will the Chief Minister in Jharkhand, who will lead Maharashtra is yet to be revealed.
With inputs from agencies
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