Sharad Pawar's NCP wins both Legislative Council seats it contested; MVA takes three of five

Mumbai: The results of the elections to five seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council are out. Counting of votes took about 45 hours, after which the results for all five seats were declared.

According to the results, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has taken a lead over the Mahayuti by winning three seats. Two of these were won by the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), which means the party won every seat it contested. One seat each went to the Congress and the Shinde Sena.

The NCP (SP), led by Sharad Pawar, had fielded candidates in the Pune graduates and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar graduates constituencies. Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav won from Pune and Pratapsinh Patil from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. By winning both seats, the party's strike rate was 100 per cent.

The BJP had fielded candidates in three seats: the Nagpur graduates, Pune graduates and Pune teachers constituencies. The BJP succeeded only in the Pune teachers constituency, where Kaustubh Gawade won. In the Nagpur graduates constituency, the Congress's Abhijit Wanjari defeated the BJP's Sudhakar Kohle. In the Pune graduates constituency, the BJP's Smita Jadhav lost. With one win out of three, the BJP's strike rate was 33.33 per cent.

The Congress had contested the Nagpur graduates and Amravati teachers constituencies. Abhijit Wanjari won in Nagpur, while the Congress's Aditi Pohare lost in Amravati. With one win out of two, the Congress's strike rate came to 50 per cent.

The Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) had fielded candidates in the Pune teachers and Amravati teachers constituencies. Kiran Sarnaik won from Amravati. In the Pune teachers constituency, Sachin Sanap, the candidate backed by the Shiv Sena, lost. The Shinde Sena's strike rate was therefore also 50 per cent.

Overall, of the five seats, the Maha Vikas Aghadi got three, the Congress and the Shinde Sena one each, and the BJP one. On strike rate, Sharad Pawar's party topped the table in this election at 100 per cent.