Ratnagiri Assembly Election Result 2024: The hot seat of Ratnagiri saw fight between two Shiv Sena factions. Shiv Sena's Uday Ravindra Samant won the seat by an impressive 41,590 vote margin. He polled 1,11,335 votes. Up against him was Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Bal Mane who polled 69,745 votes. Ratnagiri is one of the constituencies which went to poll on November 20. Shiv Sena's Uday Samant is leading.
The seat is witnessing a direct contest between the two factions of Shiv Senas which were earlier united in the last election. The incumbent MLA Uday Ravindra Samant is contesting on Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena ticket as Mahayuti candidate. Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena has pitted former MLA Bal Mane against Samant. Mane was in BJP but switched sides with Thackeray's party to contest the seat. BSP's Bharat Sitaram Pawar is also in the fray along with 5 other independent candidates.
Ratnagiri Constituency Demographic Profile
The assembly segment comes under the Sindhudurg district and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency. As per data from the Election Commission, there were 2,81,973 voters in the Ratnagiri constituency during the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Out of this, 1,37,696 voters were male and 1,44,268 were female. 9 voters belonged to the third gender. The number of service voters in Ratnagiri in 2019 was 49 (44 men and 5 women).
In 2014, the total number of voters in the Ratnagiri Assembly constituency was 2,65,279. Out of this, 1,29,986 voters were male and 1,35,293 were female. The number of service voters in Ratnagiri in 2014 was 54 ( 19 men and 35 women).
Ratnagiri Assembly Constituency 2019 and 2014 Winners (Candidates and Parties)
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, undivided Shiv Sena's incumbent MLA Uday Ravindra Samant won the Ratnagiri seat with a huge margin of 87,335 votes. He was polled 1,18,484 votes with a vote share of 72.66 per cent. He defeated NCP's Sudesh Sadanand Mayekar, who got 31,149 votes (19.1%). Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi candidate Damodar Shivram Kamble stood third with 4,621 votes (2.83%). The total number of valid votes polled was 1,63,066.
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, Uday Ravindra Samant won the Ratnagiri seat with a margin of 39,427 votes on the Shiv Sena ticket. He was polled 93,876 votes with a vote share of 53.46%. He defeated BJP candidate Balasaheb Mane, who got 54,449 votes (31.01%). NCP candidate Bashir Amin Murtuza stood third with 14,153 votes (8.08%). The total number of valid votes polled was 1,75,588.
