Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election 2024: Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has fielded Yamini Jadhav, who is an incumbent MLA, from South Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency in the upcoming general election. Yamini Jadhav is the incumbent MLA from Byculla Assembly constituency.
Yamini Jadhav will face Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) faction leader Arvind Sawant. Polling in Mumbai South seat will take place in the fifth phase on May 20.
In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena's Arvind Ganpat Sawant defeated Congress Milind Deora by a margin of 1,00,067 votes. Sawant had received a total of 421,937 votes while Milind Deora grabbed 321870 votes. Sawant had a vote share of 52.64 per cent whereas Deora got 40.15 per cent votes.
Polling in 13 parliamentary constituencies including Ramtek, Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Gadchiroli-Chimur, Chandrapur, Bhiwandi, Chandrapur, Kalyan, Maval, Nandurbar, Palghar, Raigad, Sangli, Satara, and Yavatmal-Washim has already concluded in the first two phases.
Maharashtra has a total of 48 Lok Sabha seats, the highest after Uttar Pradesh which has 80 parliamentary seats. The state is voting in the first five phases.
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