Vikhroli Assembly Election Results 2024 LIVE: In a significant win for the Shiv Sena (UBT) faction, its party leader Sunil Rajaram Raut for the third time registered a thumping victory from the Vikhroli assembly seat. Raut mirrored his 2019 and 2014 assembly performances and defeated BJP candidate Suvarna Sahdev Karanje with a margin of 15,526 votes. While Raut secured 66093 votes, the second runner-up candidate (Shiv Sena leader Suvarna Karanje) garnered 50567 votes. Further, the third candidate (MNS leader Vishwajit Shankar Dholam) had to be satisfied with 16813 votes.
About Vikhroli Assembly Constituency
The Vikhroli Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The constituency is a general seat not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). Vikhroli is one of the Assembly seats of Maharashtra. It is a suburb in Mumbai. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Congress, and Shiv Sena are some of the main parties in the constituency.
Vikhroli Assembly Constituency Demographic Profile
As per data from the Election Commission, there were 1,27,974 voters in the Vikhroli constituency during the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Out of this, 70,390 voters were male and 57,287 were female. No voter belonged to the third gender. 297 postal votes were cast in the constituency. The number of service voters in Vikhroli in 2019 was 57 (55 were men and 2 were women).
In 2014, the total number of voters in the Vikhroli constituency was 1,31,537. Out of this, 72,919 voters were male and 58,446 were female. There were 172 postal votes in the constituency. The number of service voters in Mulund in 2014 was 73 (52 were men and 21 were women).
Vikhroli Constituency 2019 and 2014 Winners (Candidates and Parties)
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, Shiv Sena candidate Sunil Rajaram Raut won the seat with a margin of 27,841 votes. He was polled 62,794 votes with a vote share of 49.08%. Sunil defeated NCP candidate Dhananjay (Dada) Pisal, who got 34,953 votes (27.32%). MNS candidate Vinod Ramchandra Shinde stood third with 16,042 (12.54%). The total number of valid votes polled was 1,49,337 and VBA candidate Siddharth Mokle was in the fourth position with 9,150 votes (7.15%).
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, Shiv Sena candidate Sunil Rajaram Raut won the seat. He was polled 50,302 votes with a vote share of 38.24%. MNS candidate Mangesh Eknath Sangale got 24,963 (18.98%) and was the runner-up. Sunil Rajaram defeated Sangale by a margin of 25,339 votes. The total number of valid votes polled in this constituency was 1,28,282.
NCP candidate Sanjay Dina Patil came in third with 20,233 votes (15.38%), and Congress candidate Dr Sandesh Balasaheb Mhatre was in the fourth position with 18,046 votes (13.72%).