Maharashtra: NOTA comes in second in Latur rural, beats Shiv Sena

In an interesting sub-result from Thursday's vote-counting, the none of the above (NOTA) option has turned out to be the second-most popular choice among voters, even ahead of Shiv Sena, in Maharashtra’s Latur-Rural constituency.

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Congress leads, NOTA follows second

Dheeraj Vilasrao Deshmukh, the youngest son of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh, has bagged over 1,35,000 votes at the time of writing with a 67.64 percentage of vote share. The NOTA option surpassed other prominent parties such as the Shiv Sena and the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, and has polled 27,500 votes with a 13.78 percentage vote-share and is standing second in the poll charts of Latur Rural, so far.

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NOTA ahead of Shiv Sena in Latur-Rural constituency

Shiv Sena candidate Sachin, alias Ravi Ramraje Deshmukh, has bagged 13,524 votes with a 6.78 percentage of vote share and stands third while Done Manchakrao Baliram of Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi party stands fourth with 12,966 so far with a vote share of 6.5 percent. It is interesting to note the vote count of NOTA is almost double than that of Shiv Sena.

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Congress ahead of BJP in Latur-City constituency

Congress’ Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh, eldest brother of Dheeraj Deshmukh and actor Riteish Deshmukh has contested from Latur-City constituency and is leading the poll charts by bagging 109,548 votes at the time of writing with a vote share of 52.59 percent. Shailesh Govindkumar Lahoti of BJP is second with 69,227 votes and a 33.23 percent vote share, falling behind Amit Deshmukh by a huge margin.

BJP the single-largest in Maharashtra polls

At the time of writing,  BJP-Shiv Sena alliance tops the overall poll charts in Maharashtra by winning 141 seats and leading in 20 seats, forming a total tally of 161 seats. Opposition Congress-NCP has won 82 seats and is leading on 16 seats taking their total to 98 seats as of now.

 

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