BJP-Sena surge ahead in Maharashtra, win 22 LS seats so far

The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won 22 of the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra whose results were announced late Thursday night.

The state has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 MPs to the Lower House of Parliament.

Of the 26 Lok Sabha seats whose results were announced by late Thursday night, the BJP won 12, while its ally Shiv Sena bagged 10 seats.

The NCP has pocketed three seats so far, while an independent candidate won Amravati defeating nearest Shiv Sena rival.

BJP candidate and Union minister Dr Subhash Bhamre won from the Dhule Lok Sabha seat, while incumbent Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Barne defeated Parth Pawar, the grandnephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, from the Maval parliamentary constituency.

The BJP has so far won Nandurbar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Raver, Akola, Dindori (ST), Bhiwandi, Mumbai North, Mumbai North-East, Mumbai North Central, Ahmednagar and Beed.

The Shiv Sena has so far bagged Buldana, Parbhani, Palghar, Mumbai South-Central, Mumbai South, Maval, Shirdi (SC), Osmanabad, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg and Kolhapur.

The Sharad Pawar-led NCP has won Raigad, Baramati and Shirur, while independent candidate Navnit Ravi Rana won the Amravati Lok Sabha seat for the first time.