MVA dominates in Marathwada, bags 6 of 8 seats

The BJP has lost three out of four Lok Sabha constituencies it held in the Marathwada region which sends a total of eight MPs to Parliament according to data available at 9 pm Maratha reservation Muslim voters opting for its rivals and agrarian issues may have impacted the saffron partyCongress which drew a blank here in 2019 bagged three seatsmdashNanded Jalna and Laturmdashwhile Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray proved his mettle securing the Osmanabad Hingoli and Parbhani seats After the split in the party sitting MP Omprakash Rajenimbalkar Osmanabad and Sanjay Patil Parbhani sided with Thackeray While Hingoli MP Hemant Patil however joined the Eknath Shindeled faction In the 2019 election while BJP and undivided Shiv Sena won seven constituenciesBJPrsquos Pankaja Munde lost Beed to NCPSPs Bajrang SonawaneThis time fivetime BJP MP and minister of state in the Union government Raosaheb Danve lost the poll from Jalna Despite former CM Ashok Chavan joining the BJP the party lost his stronghold Nanded Pankaja Munde the only BJP candidate in Marathwada was in a close contest with the NCP SP candidatein BeedOsmanabadUddhav Thackerayrsquos favourite Omprakash Rajenimbalkar has won this constituency once again He defeated Archana Patil of the NCP Patil is a rival of the Rajenimbalkar family In the 2019 election Rajenimbalkar defeated her husband Ranajagjitsinha Patil who contested the poll on an NCP ticket After the Sena split Rajenimbalkar sided with ThackerayldquoI was elected earlier in 2019 not in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi but those of Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray and party chief Uddhav Thackeray This election has proved thisrdquo he saidThe candidatesOmprakash Rajenimbalkar SS UBT 745 lakh Archana Patil NCP 417 lakh2019 election Omprakash Rajenimbalkar 596 lakhRanajagjitsinha Patil NCP 469 lakhHingoliAfter the Shiv Sena split the partyrsquos Hingoli MP Hemant Patil joined the Shinde Sena In the Lok Sabha constituency five out of the six MLAs belong to the Mahayuti Yet UBT candidate Nagesh Patil won the election recording a handsome tallyHe defeated Baburao Kadam Kohalikar of the rival Sena Sitting MP Hemant Patil was originally to be the Shinde Sena candidate but after strong opposition from the local BJP unit the chief minister replaced himThe candidatesNagesh Patil Ashtikar SS UBT 490 lakh Baburao Kadam Kohalikar SS 382 lakh2019 election Hemant Patil SS 586 lakh Subhash Wankhede Cong 308 lakhNanded Surprisingly BJP MP Prataprao Chikhalikar Patil lost this seat considered one of the safest in Maharashtra to the Congressrsquos Vasantrao Chavan Patil Prime Minister Narendra Modi had held a rally in Nanded constituency after former chief minister Ashok Chavan joined the BJP just before the Lok Sabha election The Maratha community and farmers made their displeasure evident by opting for the CongressThe candidatesVasantrao Chavan Patil Congress 525 lakh Prataprao ChikhalikarPatil BJP 466 lakh2019 election Prataprao Chikhalikar Patil BJP 486 lakh Ashok Chavan Cong 446 lakhParbhaniThis constituency has been with the Shiv Sena since 1999 Sanjay Jadhav the incumbent MP took Thackerayrsquos side after the split in the party In the 1960s and 1970s Shivajirao Deshmukh of Congress won three Lok Sabha elections from Parbhani Since 1999 the Shiv Sena has ruled this constituency 6 times Jadhav defeated Mahadev Jankar a Mahayuti partner and the Rashtriya Samaj Party chiefThe candidatesSanjay Jadhav SS UBT 564 lakh Mahadev Jankar RSP 422 lakh2019 election Sanjay Jadhav Shiv Sena UBT 538 lakhRajesh Vitekar NCP 496 lakhAlamgir Khan VBA 149 lakhBeedPankaja Munde former minister and daughter of BJP stalwart Gopinath Munde could not retain her home constituency Beed after a close contest with NCP SP candidate Bajrang Sonwane Pankaja is the third member of her family to represent Beed Her father Gopinath Munde was its MP from 2009 until he died in 2014 after which her sister Pritam stepped into his shoes Ever since Pankaja Munde was announced as the BJP candidate she has been facing opposition from the Maratha and Dhangar communitiesThe candidatesPankaja Munde BJP 67 lakh Bajrang Manohar Sonwane NCP SP 68 lakh2019 election Pritam Munde BJP 678 lakh Bajrang Sonwane NCP 509 lakhAurangabadShiv Senarsquos Sandipanrao Bhumre the guardian minister of Aurangabad but an outsider to the electorate emerged the winner here Bhumre a fivetime MLArsquos Assembly segment Paithan is part of Aurangabad district but is included in the Jalna constituency Due to this the opposition painted him as an outsider However he defeated Imtiaz Jaleel AIMIMrsquos sole MP in the region while UBTrsquos sixtime former MP Chandrakant Khaire came thirdThe CandidatesSandipanrao Bhumre Shiv Sena 437 lakh Imtiaz Jaleel AIMIM 340 lakhChandrakant Khaire Shiv Sena UBT 291 lakh2019 election Imtiaz Jaleel AIMIM 389 lakh Chandrakant Khaire Shiv Sena 384 lakhJalnaFivetime MP and minister of the state Raosaheb Danve of the BJP has lost to his archrival Dr Kalyan Kale The ire of the Maratha community over the reservation issue likely played a role Dr Kale also received support from Muslim voters Danve defeated Dr Kalemdasha twotime former MLA in the 2009 electionThe candidatesDr Kalyan Kale Congress 587 lakh Raosaheb Danve BJP 486 lakh2019 election Raosaheb Danve BJP 698 Lakh Vilas Autade Congress 365LaturCongress has returned to power in Latur after a decade with its candidate Dr Shivajirao Kalge trouncing sitting BJP MP Sudhakar Shrangare This constituency is home pitch of the late chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and former Union home minister Shivraj Patil represented the seat seven times between 1980 and 1999The candidatesDr Shivajirao Kalge Cong 6 lakh Sudhakar Shrangare BJP 535 lakh2019 election Sudhakar Shrangare BJP 661 lakh Machindra Kamant Congress 371 lakh