The ruling Mahayuti is en route to a dominant win in the Maharashtra Assembly election.
The alliance – led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar – was ahead in 186 of the state’s 288 seats by 9.45 am, and The Maha Vikas Aghadi – fronted the Congress and the Sena and NCP groups led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar – is ahead in only 78. Non-aligned parties are leading in 12 seats.
Within the Mahayuti, it is the BJP that is ahead; the saffron party is leading in 101 of the 149 seats it is contesting. The Shinde Sena is ahead in 54 of the 81 it is contesting and Ajit Pawar’s NCP 30 of 59.
Across the aisle in the MVA, the Congress is leading in 30 of the 101 seats it has entered, while Sharad Pawar’s NCP is ahead in 23 of 86 and the Thackeray Sena in 22 of 95.