NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena’s Dadaji Bhuse is leading Maharashtra’s Malegaon outer and AIMIM’s Mohammed Ismail Abdul Khalique won the Malegaon Central elections.
Electoral Commission data shows Dadaji Bhuse received 1,58,284 votes, leading ahead of Hiray and More who secured 39,843 and 1,236 votes respectively. While Khalique received 1,09,332 votes.
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the BJP-led NDA formed the government.

However, divisions within the Shiv Sena led Uddhav Thackeray to align with the NCP and Congress, forming the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, with Uddhav as chief minister.
In 2022, Eknath Shinde split from Thackeray’s faction, partnered with the BJP, and assumed the role of chief minister, causing the MVA government to collapse. In 2023, Ajit Pawar broke from the NCP and joined Shinde’s alliance with the BJP. Maharashtra politics now revolves around two main alliances: the MVA (Shiv Sena UBT, NCP SP, Congress) and the Maha Yuti (BJP, Shinde’s Sena, Ajit Pawar’s NCP).
The ruling Mahayuti alliance demonstrated strong performance, leading in 225 of 288 assembly seats according to early counting trends from the Election Commission. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi showed weaker results, leading in only 46 seats.
Election Commission data indicates that within Mahayuti, BJP led in 130 seats, whilst Shiv Sena and NCP led in 59 and 36 seats respectively. In MVA, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) led in 12 seats, Congress in 15, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) in 19 seats (till 5:10 pm).