CVoter Maharashtra exit poll result 2024: Tough battle between NDA, INDIA bloc

Maharashtra is poised for a neck-and-neck contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA and the INDIA bloc in the Lok Sabha elections as ABP-CVoter exit poll results 2024 predicted between 22 and 26 seats for the former and between 23 and 25 for the latter.

The NDA may secure 45.3 per cent vote share, while the INDIA bloc could end up securing 44 per cent vote share in Maharashtra. Others are likely to get a 10.7 per cent vote share, ABP-CVoter predicted.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA won 42 seats, while in 2019, the alliance bagged 41 seats in Maharashtra. This time, it seems the BJP-led NDA is set to face a tough fight from the opposition’s INDIA bloc.

Of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 35 were polled in four phases on April 19, April 26, May 7, and May 13. Votes will be counted on June 4. An election official said the average voter turnout in the last four phases was 62.9 per cent. In the 2019 elections, the average for these constituencies was 62.5 per cent.

In Maharashtra, a fierce battle was witnessed between the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction) and the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction)-BJP alliance.

Some of the key candidates contesting the election include two Union ministers belonging to the BJP—Piyush Goyal from Mumbai-North and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Congress’ Varsha Gaikwad from Mumbai North Central, BJP’s Pankaja Munde from Beed, and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule from Baramati, among others.

In the 2019 general elections, the BJP had won 23 Lok Sabha seats in the state, its alliance partner Shiv Sena (which was then undivided) won 18 seats, NCP (undivided) won four, and Congress and AIMIM each won a seat. An independent candidate won one seat.