Pune Bypoll Election Results 2023 Live Updates: Counting of votes for the byelections to Kasba and Chinchwad Assembly constituencies in the Pune district of Maharashtra started on Thursday (March 2, 2023). The counting started at 8 am for the bypolls that took place on February 26 for the two seats held by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The average voter turnout in both constituencies was 50 per cent.
The elections are witnessing the BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena fight against the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Congress, and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
The elections were necessitated by the deaths of incumbent BJP MLAs Mukta Tilak (Kasba Peth) and Laxman Jagtap (Chinchwad).
Pune Bypoll Election Results 2023: Main contenders in Kasba Peth
In the Kasba Peth constituency bypoll, Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar, who was backed by the MVA, has defeated BJP's Hemant Rasane.
Dhangekar won the seat by over 11,000 votes.
Pune Bypoll Election Results 2023: Main contenders in Chinchwad
In Chinchwad, the fight is between BJP's Ashwini Jagtap, NCP's Vithal `Nana` Kate and independent candidate Rahul Kalate.
As per the available trends, Jagtap has so far bagged more than 35,900 votes over her nearest rival Vithal `Nana` Kate who has secured 28,500 votes.
A Shiv Sena (UBT) rebel candidate contesting as an independent has received 11,500 votes.
In the Chinchwad assembly seat, counting is being done at the Shankarao Gawade Kamgar Bhavan in Thergaon.
There would be as many as 37 counting rounds for the Chinchwad seat.
