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Solapur City Central election result 2024: BJP candidate Devendra Rajesh Kothe leads by 25,246 votes | India News – Times of India
Kothe got 47,664 votes while AIMIM’s Farooq Makbool Shabdi got 22,418 votes after 9 of the 22 rounds of counting were completed.
Solapur City Central is one of the 288 constituencies in Maharashtra, located in Solapur district.
Parliamentary election results
According to the 2011 census, the city has a population of over 950,000, with Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounting for 14.51% and 1.89% of the population respectively.
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Praniti Shinde of the Indian National Congress (INC) won the Solapur City Central seat by a margin of 12,719 votes, edging out Haji Farooq Maqbool Shabdi of the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen ( AIMIM) defeated. Shinde had also won the seat in the 2014 elections.
Solapur City Central has a fully urban electorate, with 100% of voters living in urban areas, as per the 2011 census. The total number of voters in 2019 was 289,765 and there were 283 polling booths in the constituency. The turnout in the 2019 parliamentary elections was 58.06%, while in the parliamentary elections it was 55.1%.
For the 2024 Assembly elections, the main candidates are Adam Narsayya Narayan of CPI(M), Chetan Narote of INC, Taufeeq Ismail Shaikh (Pailwan) of AIMIM and Devendra Kothe of BJP.
These elections are of great importance in the changing political landscape in Maharashtra, where party alliances continue to evolve. The elections are scheduled for November 20 and counting of votes is scheduled for November 23, besides bypolls in other states.
