Who will become the king of Maharashtra, fate will be decided today, direct competition will be seen between Mahavikas Aghadi and Mahayuti.

Mumbai/New Delhi:Maharashtra assembly election results will come today. Counting of votes will start at 8 am on Saturday. All eyes are on the outcome of the contest between the ruling BJP-led alliance and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which is trying to return to power. Election officials said that the final turnout in the voting held on November 20 was 66.05 percent whereas in 2019 this figure was 61.1 percent.

Where was what percentage of voting took place?
Election officials said counting of votes will also take place for the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election, where 67.81 percent voting was recorded on November 20. he/she said that 76.63 percent voting took place in Kolhapur district of the state, followed by 75.26 percent voting in Gadchiroli, where some areas are affected by leftist extremism. The lowest turnout was in Mumbai at 52.07 percent. 55.95 percent voting took place in Mumbai suburban district. A total of 288 counting centers have been set up to count the votes today, which also includes one center for Nanded Lok Sabha by-election. A total of 288 counting observers will monitor each assembly constituency, while two observers have been appointed to monitor counting in the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election, an official said.

The Election Commission official said that due to the high number of postal ballots, 1,732 tables for counting of postal ballots and 592 tables for Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) have been installed to ensure smooth counting process in all the assembly constituencies. .

Which party had fielded how many candidates?
In the grand alliance, Bharatiya Janata Party had fielded candidates on 149 assembly seats, Shiv Sena on 81 seats and Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had fielded candidates on 59 constituencies. In the opposition MVA alliance, Congress fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (Ubatha) 95 and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) 86 candidates. Parties like Bahujan Samaj Party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) also contested the elections, in which BSP fielded 237 candidates and AIMIM 17 candidates.

This time the number of candidates has increased by 28 percent compared to the 2019 assembly elections in the state. This year, 4,136 candidates contested the elections, while 3,239 candidates were in the fray in the 2019 elections. Of these candidates, 2,086 are independents. Rebel candidates were in the fray on more than 150 seats, with Mahayuti and MVA candidates contesting against their party’s official candidates.

This time there were 1,00,186 polling stations in Maharashtra, whereas in the 2019 assembly elections there were 96,654 polling stations. Mumbai Police has issued an order banning the gathering of people within a radius of 300 meters of all the 36 counting centers in the city. These centers cover 36 assembly constituencies. This order will be effective from 6 am on November 21 to midnight on November 24.

Ahead of the counting of votes, a local party worker in Pune put up a poster showing NCP chief and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar as the next chief minister, although it was later removed. The tenure of the current state assembly ends on November 26.