Mumbai Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: In a first, the city has 5 Marathi MPs

Updated On: 06 June, 2024 07:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale

Four of the six constituencies in the city saw a battle between only Marathi candidates

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BJP’s Piyush Goyal is the only non-Marathi candidate to win in city

While MVA was vying for all six seats with Marathi candidates, Mahayuti had put forward four. Of five MPs, four are from MVA and one from Shinde Sena. For the first time in 20 years, the election had pivoted towards Marathi votes, with three seats contested directly between Sena UBT and Shinde Sena, with both having a Marathi base. Even the Congress had given both seats to Marathi candidates and after announcing two non-Marathi candidates in March, BJP took almost a month to decide on a Marathi candidate for the third seat. The Marathi voter percentage, too, was around 37 per cent in Mumbai. In 2004 and 2009, there were only two Marathi MPs, while in 2014 and 2019, there were four Marathi MPs.

As a result, now there are five Marathi MPs. With the exception of the Mumbai North and North East constituencies, all remaining seats witnessed battles between Marathi candidates. Piyush Goyal in Mumbai North and Mihir Kotecha in the North East were the sole non-Marathi contenders. Ravindra Waikar (Shinde Sena), Varsha Gaikwad (Congress), Arvind Sawant (Sena UBT) and Anil Desai (Sena UBT) won against their Marathi counterparts while Sanjay Patil (Sena UBT) managed a victory in Mumbai North East by defeating Mihir Kotecha (BJP). Piyush Goyal (BJP) secured Mumbai North.

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