Live : Baramati Assembly Election 2019

Baramati, a constituency which is being represented by the family members of veteran Indian politician Sharad Pawar for more than two decades, is going to vote on April 23 in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019. Supriya Sule of the Nationalist Congress Paty (NCP) -- daughter of Mr Pawar -- had won the Baramati constituency in 2014 by defeating Mahadev Jagannath Jankar of the Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSP) with a majority of 69,719 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Supriya Sule was polled 5,21,562 while runner-up Mahadev Jagannath Jankar had got 4,51,843 in his kitty.

In 2009 too, Ms Sule had won the seat under the banner of NCP.

Before this, Sharad Pawar, the president of the NCP which he founded in 1999 after separating from the Indian National Congress (INC), had represented the constituency six times before the 2008 delimitation.

Mr Pawar had won the seats in 1999 and 2004 as a candidate of NCP, while in 1998, 1996 and 1991 (in a by-election, after his nephew Ajit Pawar vacated the Lok Sabha seat in favour of his uncle, who had then become defence minister in PV Narasimha Rao's government), he secured the seat as an INC candidate. In 1984, Mr Pawar had represented the seat as a candidate of the Indian Congress (Socialist), which was formed after a split in the Congress party.

Baramati Lok Sabha constituecy has six assembly seats from the Maharashtra state assembly; they are: Daund, Indapur, Baramati, Purandar, Bhor and Khadakwasala.