Mumbai North Central Election Results 2024: BJP candidate Ujjwal Nikam is leading against Congress' Varsha Gaikwad in the Mumbai North Central constituency in Maharashtra.
Mumbai North Central is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra. The state has 48 parliamentary seats. The Mumbai North Central seat comprises six Assembly segments including Vile Parle, Chandivali, Kurla, Kalina, Vandre East and Vandre West. The constituency is a general seat and not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Shiv Sena are the main parties in the constituency. Congress leader Sharad Dighe represented the Mumbai North Central constituency twice in 1984 and 1991. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi also won the seat in 1999. BJP's Poonam Mahajan has been representing the seat since 2014.
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Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Key parties and candidates
Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Advocate Ujjwal Nikam, Congress party's Varsha Eknath Gaikwad and Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi's (VBA) Santosh Ganpat Ambulge are the main candidates in the Mumbai North Central constituency of Maharashtra.
Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of polls
The Mumbai North Central constituency in Maharashtra went to polls in the fifth phase on May 20 along with the other 12 constituencies of the state.
Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of results
The results of the Kalyan Lok Sabha Elections will be declared on June 4.
Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voter turnout
The Lok Sabha seat witnessed a voter turnout of 51.98 per cent, according to the Election Commission data.
Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Elections 2014 and 2019
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP candidate Poonam Mahajan won the seat for the second time in a row with a margin of 1,30,005 votes. She was polled 4,86,672 votes with a vote share of 53.97%. She defeated Congress candidate Priya Sunil Dutt who got 3,56,667 votes (39.55%). The total number of valid votes polled was 9,01,784. Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA) candidate Abdur Rehman Anjaria stood third with 33,703 votes (3.74%).
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP candidate Poonam Mahajan won the seat for the first time. She was polled 4,78,535 votes with a vote share of 56.60%. Congress candidate and sitting MP Priya Sunil Dutt got 2,91,764 votes (34.51%) and was the runner-up. Mahajan defeated Dutt by a margin of 1,86,771 votes. The total number of valid votes polled in this constituency was 8,45,292. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Phiroze Palkhivala came third with 34,824 votes (4.12%) and Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Anand Vyankatrao Shinde was in the fourth position with 10,128 votes (1.20%).
