Baramati Assembly Election Result 2024: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has gained a comfortable victory by 1,00,899 votes over his nephew and NCP (SP) candidate Yugendra Pawar in the Baramati assembly constituency on Saturday (November 23). He polled 1,81,132 votes while Yugendra polled 80,233 votes.
Notably, all eyes are on Baramati, a stronghold of NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, as the high-profile contest is within the family. Like most of the seats in the state, the contest in Baramati is also tied between Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). Ajit Pawar of NCP-AP is contesting against Yugendra Pawar of Sharad Pawar's NCP. The seat has traditionally been a stronghold of the NCP. However, after the split in the party, incumbent Ajit Pawar is looking to retain the seat while Sharad Pawar's faction is looking to wipe out the rival faction.
Earlier, Ajit Pawar was trailing behind in postal ballot vote counting.
The Baramati Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The constituency is a general seat and not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs). The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-Ajit Pawar), Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde), NCP (Sharad Pawar), Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) are the main parties in the state. Ajit Pawar has been the MLA from Baramati since 1991. First on Congress ticket, he continued to hold the seat after the formation of NCP in 1999.
The contest is also interesting as earlier in Lok Sabha elections, Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule contested against Ajit Pawar and defeated him. After facing defeat against sister Supriya Sule, Ajit Pawar is now contesting against his nephew Yugendra.
Other candidates in the fray are BSP's Chandrakant Dadu Kharat, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi's Mangaldas Tukaram Nikalje, SBP's Vinod Jagtap, RSP's Chopade Maruti, BPSP's Anurag Khalate, Samata Party's Soyal Shaikh and two independent candidates.
Baramati Assembly Constituency 2019 and 2014 Winners (Candidates and Parties)
In 2019, Ajit Anantrao Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (then undivided) won the seat by defeating Gopichand Kundlik Padalkar of the BJP with a margin of 165265 votes. Pawar polled 195641 votes as against Padalkar, who secured 30376 votes.
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, also Ajit Pawar won the seat. He was polled 150588 votes. BJP candidate Balasaheb Alias Prabhakar Dadaram Gawade got 60,797 votes and was the runner-up.
