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Maharashtra Legislative Council polls: BJP loses key Amravati MLC seat to Congress, wins just 1 of 6 seats

A 63.89 percent provisional voter turnout had been registered in the polling for the three graduate and two teachers constituencies of state legislative council which took place on December 1.

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Maharashtra Legislative Council polls: BJP loses key Amravati MLC seat to Congress, wins just 1 of 6 seats

The BJP today suffered a setback in polls in Maharashtra on Thursday as its official candidate for the Amravati graduate constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls lost to the Congress. The results, announced late night after the completion of five rounds, showed BJP’s Sandip Joshi trailing with 25,898 votes against Congress’s Abhijit Wanjari who secured 35,509 votes.

The counting to five constituencies three graduates’ and two teachers’ commenced on Thursday. In the final results to the graduate seats declared on Friday morning, the MVA coalition of the Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Congress bagged all three seats, toppling the BJP in the all-important Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad graduate constituency seats.

Abhijit Vanjari, the Congress’ candidate, polled an impressive 55,947 votes of a total of 1.33 lakh votes, trouncing his nearest rival, the BJP’s Sandeep Joshi, by nearly 15,000 votes.

BJP leaders, including Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, also campaigned extensively in Pune, where the ruling coalition candidate has won.

“The results of Maharashtra Legislative Council polls are not as per our expectations. We were expecting more seats but won only one. We miscalculated the combined power of the three parties (Maha Vikas Aghadi),”  Fadnavis told news agency ANI.

A 63.89 percent provisional voter turnout had been registered in the polling for the three graduate and two teachers constituencies of state legislative council which took place on December 1. The elections were necessitated following the completion of the term of MLCs Chandrakant Patil (BJP), Satish Chavan (NCP), and Anil Sole (BJP).

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