NEW DELHI: Peasants And Workers Party of India’s candidate Babasaheb Annasahen Deshmukh is leading by 9,903 votes on the Sangole assembly constituency.
Deshmukh by the end of the 18 of 23 rounds of counting received 91,656 votes while Shiv Sena’s Shahajibapu Rajaram Patil received 78,213 votes.
Sangole assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies in Maharashtra’s Vidhan Sabha, located in Solapur district.
Assembly Election Results
This general category seat is part of the Madha parliamentary constituency, which consists of six assembly segments.
As per the 2011 Census, Sangole has approximately 44,275 Scheduled Caste (SC) voters, constituting about 15.25% of the electorate. The Scheduled Tribe (ST) population is smaller, making up 0.69% with around 2,003 voters. The Muslim voter base in the constituency is around 9,000, approximately 3.1% of the total electorate. A significant majority, around 90.85% or 263,764 voters, live in rural areas, while urban voters account for just 9.15%, or 26,565 voters.
In the 2019 Maharashtra Parliament elections, Sangole had a total of 290,329 voters. The constituency saw a voter turnout of 64.01% during the Parliament elections, while the Assembly elections in 2019 had a higher turnout of 74.22%. There were 291 polling booths in the constituency.
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shahaji Patil of Shiv Sena (SHS) emerged victorious with 99,464 votes, which accounted for 46.16% of the total vote share. He defeated Dr. Aniket Deshmukh of the Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWPI), who secured 98,696 votes, with a slim margin of 768 votes.
In the 2014 Assembly elections, Deshmukh Ganpatrao Annasaheb of the PWPI secured victory with 94,374 votes, defeating Shahajibapu Rajaram Patil of Shiv Sena, who trailed by a margin of 25,224 votes.
Looking ahead to the 2024 elections, key candidates include Shahajibapu Patil from Shiv Sena, Dipakaba Bapusaheb Salunkhe from Shiv Sena UBT, and Dr Babasaheb Annasaheb Deshmukh from PWPI.
The elections will be held on November 20, 2024, and the results are expected on November 23, 2024. Maharashtra’s 9.64 crore voters will decide on 288 representatives, with reserved seats for Scheduled Castes (29 seats) and Scheduled Tribes (25 seats). The main contest will be between the Mahayuti alliance (BJP, Shiv Sena, NCP) and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (Congress, Shiv Sena UBT, and Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction). If no coalition is formed within 72 hours of the results, President’s Rule may be imposed as the current assembly term ends on November 26.
