Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand concluded on November 20.
Maharashtra recorded a voter turnout of 66.05 per cent, the highest since 1995. The voter turnout in Jharkhand was 67.74 per cent.
The Election Commission of India has announced the results of the contest in both states.
Battleground Maharashtra saw the contest between the two alliances – the ruling Mahayuti led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi led by Congress. Maharashtra has 288 Assembly seats.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance has won in Maharashtra, with the saffron party alone winning 132 of the 288 seats.
BJP won those seats with 26.22 per cent voter share.
Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena won 57 seats with 12.38 per cent vote share. NCP, a member of the BJP-led NDA, won 41 seats with just 9 per cent vote share.
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray won 20 seats after getting 9.96 per cent vote share. Congress won 16 seats with 12.42 per cent vote share. Sharad Pawar’s NCP, which had 11.28 per cent vote share, won 10 seats.
In Jharkhand, the fight was between the BJP-led NDA and INDIA’s Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. The two alliances contested for a total of 81 assembly constituencies. The second phase of voting that ended on November 20 was for 38 of these seats.
Here, the JMM-led coalition, INDIA, has emerged victorious. JMM has won 34 of the 81 seats with 23.44 per cent voter share.
BJP won 21 seats with a much higher 33.18 per cent vote share, while Congress won 16 seats with 15.54 per cent vote share.
While it is decided that Hemant Soren will the Chief Minister in Jharkhand, who will lead Maharashtra is yet to be revealed.
Link to article –
