Sharad Pawar faction wins both seats it contested in Maharashtra Legislative Council polls

The results for five seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council became clear about 45 hours later. Of the five seats, candidates of the Maha Vikas Aghadi won three and those of the Mahayuti won two.

Kaustubh Gavade of the BJP won the Pune teachers' constituency. Kiran Sarnaik of the Shiv Sena won the Amravati teachers' constituency. Abhijit Wanjari of the Congress won the Nagpur graduates' constituency. Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) won the Pune graduates' constituency. Pratapsingh Patil of the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) won the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar graduates' constituency.

The BJP fielded candidates on three of the five seats: Nagpur graduates, Pune graduates and Pune teachers. It won only one, Pune teachers. Sudhakar Kohale lost in Nagpur graduates, and party candidate Smita Jadhav lost in Pune graduates. The BJP's strike rate was 33.33 per cent.

The NCP (Sharad Chandra Pawar) faction contested two seats, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar graduates and Pune graduates, and won both. Its strike rate was 100 per cent.

The Shinde Shiv Sena contested two seats, Pune teachers and Amravati teachers, and won one. Kiran Sarnaik won Amravati teachers, while Sachin Sanap, the Shiv Sena-backed candidate in Pune teachers, lost. Its strike rate was 50 per cent.

The Congress also contested two seats, Nagpur graduates and Amravati teachers. Abhijit Wanjari won Nagpur graduates, while the party's Aditi Pohare lost in Amravati teachers. The Congress strike rate was also 50 per cent.

In all, the BJP contested three seats and won one, the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) contested two and won one, the Congress contested two and won one, and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) contested two and won both.