Nagpur South West Election Results 2024: South-West assembly seat is very important in Maharashtra assembly elections. From here, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is once again in the fray. Fadnavis became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 2014 by winning from the Nagpur South-West Assembly seat. This time Congress’s Prafulla Vinod Gudadhe has contested against him.
Evaluation on Nagpur South West Constituency
In Nagpur Assembly elections, people have to choose their leaders on 288 seats and only the alliance which wins 145 or more seats will be able to form the government. Nagpur South West Assembly seat, which came into existence after the delimitation of 2008, is very special in itself.
This is because this seat is known in the entire state by the name of veteran BJP leader and former CM Devendra Fadnavis. Devendra Fadnavis is currently the Deputy CM of the state.
Devendra Fadnavis has been contesting elections from Nagpur South West Assembly seat ever since it came into existence. He has been elected as Assembly member from this seat for three consecutive times. Nagpur is also considered a stronghold of RSS, hence this seat is for BJP. However, Congress also has a good number of voters here. Devendra Fadnavis has won the elections of 2009, 2014 and 2019 from this assembly seat.
This time too, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is once again in the fray from Nagpur South-West Assembly seat. Talking about the political journey of Devendra Fadnavis, his political career started at a very young age in 1992. He was elected councilor in Nagpur Municipal Corporation in 1992 and held this responsibility for two consecutive terms.
Fadnavis also holds the record of being the second youngest mayor in India. He has been the youngest mayor of Nagpur. Apart from this, Devendra Fadnavis was also the Mayor of Nagpur twice. After that, in 1999, he entered the Maharashtra Assembly as an MLA, which is still continuing.
Devendra Fadnavis became the BJP candidate from Nagpur West seat in the 1999 Maharashtra Assembly elections. In this election, he defeated Ashok Dhawad of Congress by 9087 votes and became MLA for the first time. In the next election also he became BJP candidate from Nagpur West seat. This time he defeated Congress candidate Arvindbabu Deshmukh. This time the victory margin of Fadnavis increased to 17,610 votes.
History of Nagpur South-West seat
This assembly seat falls in Nagpur district, famous worldwide for oranges. Apart from Nagpur South-West, the district also includes 11 other seats – Khujli, Lapata, Hingna, Umred (SC), Nagpur South, Nagpur East, Nagpur Central, Nagpur West, Nagpur North (SC), Kamthi and Ramtek. Talking about the history of Nagpur South-West seat, it came into existence for the first time in the 2009 assembly elections.
What happened in the last Nagpur South West election results 2019?
Talking about the Assembly elections 2019, Devendra Fadnavis stood for Nagpur South West Assembly seat from BJP to win this seat for the third consecutive time. In front of him, Vikas Pandurang Thackeray from Congress tried his best. Bharip Mahajan Bahu Sangh also fielded Lokhande Raju Jyotiram. Devend Fadnavis got a total of 89,258 votes in this election. Whereas Vikas Pandurang Thackeray of Congress could get only 61,483 votes. Raju of Bharip Mahajan Bahu Sangh had to be satisfied with 10,533 votes.
Political structure of Nagpur South assembly seat
If we talk about caste equations in Nagpur South West Assembly seat, there are about 22 percent Dalit voters here and about 6 percent tribal voters. There are a lot of Muslim voters in this assembly seat which is around one and a half percent. If we look at rural and urban voters, there are no rural voters here, 100 percent voters are urban only.
Who won Nagpur South-West election constituency seat when?
Result of Nagpur South West elections 2009
Assembly elections were held on this seat for the first time in 2009. In this, BJP made Devendra Fadnavis its candidate from here. Whereas Congress fielded Vikas Thackeray in front of him. The results were in favor of Fadnavis and he won the election by 27,775 votes. In this way Devendra Fadnavis became MLA for the third consecutive time but he had won the first two elections from Nagpur West seat.
Fadnavis became the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 2014.
After 2009, Devendra Fadnavis became the BJP candidate from the same seat in Nagpur South-West Assembly seat in 2014 also. In this election he defeated Congress candidate Prafulla Vinod Gudadhe (Patil). Fadnavis became MLA for the fourth consecutive time and once again the victory margin increased to 58,942 votes. In this election, BJP got 122 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly while its ally Shiv Sena got 63 seats. After this victory, Devendra Fadnavis became the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Fadnavis’s victory margin in 2019
In the last Maharashtra elections also, Devendra Fadnavis tried his luck from Nagpur South-West seat. In this election he faced Dr. Ashish Deshmukh of Congress. This election battle was also in the name of Fadnavis and this time he won by 49,344 votes. However, this time his victory margin was less as compared to 2014.
There were many political upheavals in the Maharashtra state
After the assembly elections held in 2019, a lot changed in the politics of the state. In 2019, BJP and Shiv Sena contested the elections together and got majority in the results, but the alliance of both the parties broke on the issue of Chief Minister. After this many political upheavals took place in the state. After the election results, the state has seen three different coalition governments. Sometimes the government was sworn in before the morning sun rose and sometimes a new government was formed after a split in the largest party in the government. Sometimes there was rebellion in Shiv Sena and sometimes there was rebellion in NCP. In these five years, all the major parties of the state enjoyed the pleasures of power. The number of major political parties in the state also increased from four to six.
What is the present situation in Nagpur Vidhan Sabha election 2024?
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is once again contesting from Nagpur South-West on BJP ticket. Prafulla Vinod Gudadhe (Patil) of Congress is trying his luck in front of him. In 2014 also, both these candidates were face to face on this seat. This time a total of 12 candidates are in the fray for Nagpur South-West seat. So stay here for live counting of Nagpur South West election results and latest equation.
