Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidates Arun Lad, Satish Chavan and Abhijit Wanjarri on Friday won Pune, Aurungabad and Nagpur Graduate constituencies in the state Legislative Council elections. Jayant Asgaonkar of Maha Vikas Aghadi was leading from Pune Teachers constituency till the last report came.

Lad defeated National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Sangram Deshmukh by over 48,800 votes in the Pune graduate constituency, held by BJP state president Chandrakant Patil for the last two consecutive terms.