Aurangabad West assembly seat is also one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. This is assembly constituency number 108. This assembly seat is reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST). Aurangabad West assembly seat is located in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. The election results will be declared on November 23. Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), Congress, BJP and BSP are the main parties on this seat. Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Pandurang Shirsat is currently the MLA from Aurangabad West seat and was elected from Aurangabad West constituency in the assembly elections 2019.
Introduction to Aurangabad West seat
There were 1,99,789 voters in Aurangabad West assembly constituency during the 2019 assembly elections. Of these, 1,09,392 were male and 88,786 were female voters. Four voters in this assembly constituency belonged to the third gender. 1,607 postal votes were cast in the constituency. In 2019, the number of service voters in Aurangabad West assembly constituency was 147. In the 2014 assembly elections, the total number of voters in Aurangabad West assembly constituency was 2,09,011. Of these, 1,14,182 voters were male and 94,829 were female voters. There were 876 valid postal votes in the constituency. In 2014, the number of service voters in Aurangabad West was 755.
2019 election results
In the Assembly elections 2019, Shiv Sena candidate Sanjay Pandurang Shirsat won this seat by a margin of 40,445 votes (20.57%). He received 83,792 votes with 42% vote share. He defeated independent candidate Raju Ramrao Shinde, who received 43,347 votes (21.72%). AIMIM leader Arun Vitthalrao Borde stood third with 39,336 votes (19.71%) while VBA candidate Sandeep Bhausaheb Shirsa stood fourth with 25,649 votes (12.85%).
Aurangabad West status 2014
Talking about the 2014 assembly elections, Congress leader Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi had won this seat. He received 96,038 votes with 45.76% vote share. BJP candidate Suresh Pandurang got 82,117 votes (39.13%) and was the runner-up. Nabi defeated Pandurang by a margin of 13,921 votes (6.73%). In this assembly seat, Shiv Sena candidate Meerakar Sunil Prabhakarrao stood third with 15,909 votes (7.58%) while MNS candidate Kale Deepali Madhukar stood fourth with 3,465 votes (1.65%).