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Highlights | Kankavli Election Results 2024: BJP`s Nitesh Narayan Rane Wins Against Shiv Sena (UBT) Candidate Sandesh Bhaskar Parkar
Kankavli Maharashtra Election Results 2024: Union Minister Narayan Rane`s son, Nitesh Rane, has represented the Kankavli assembly seat for the past decade. In 2019, he retained the seat with 56.16% of the vote, defeating Shiv Sena`s Satish Sawant by over 28,000 votes.
Kankavli Maharashtra Election Results 2024: Kankavli, located in Sindhudurg district, falls under the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency. Situated along the Gad and Janavali rivers, this general assembly seat is not reserved for SCs or STs. Major political players in the state include BJP, NCP (Ajit Pawar), Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde), NCP (Sharad Pawar), Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and MNS.
Union Minister Narayan Rane's son, Nitesh Rane, has represented the Kankavli assembly seat for the past decade. In 2019, he retained the seat with 56.16% of the vote, defeating Shiv Sena's Satish Sawant by over 28,000 votes.
Earlier, in 2014, Rane won the seat as a Congress candidate, defeating BJP’s Pramod Jathar. The constituency has over 230,000 registered voters. The main electoral battle is between the ruling Mahayuti (BJP, NCP-Ajit Pawar, Shiv Sena-Eknath Shinde) and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (Congress, NCP-Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-UBT, Samajwadi Party).
Maharashtra has seen three chief ministers in five years: Devendra Fadnavis (BJP), Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena-UBT), and Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena-Eknath Shinde).
The voting for Maharashtra’s 288 assembly seats took place on November 20, and vote counting is underway today.
2:30 PM: BJP candidate Nitesh Narayan Rane has received 1,08,369 votes. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Sandesh Bhaskar Parkar has received 50,362 votes in the 2024 Kankavli Assembly elections.
10:30 AM: BJP candidate Nitesh Narayan Rane is leading by 15,159 votes against Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Sandesh Bhaskar Parkar. Nitesh Rane has received 26,984 votes, while Sandesh Bhaskar Parkar has received 11,825 votes.
9:00 AM: Counting Begins.