Live : Bhandara Gondiya Assembly Election 2019

Nanabhau Falgunrao Patole of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won this Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 general elections defeating senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel over a margin of more than 1.4 lakh votes. Mr. Patole was polled 6,06,129 votes while the runner-up garnered 4,56,875. In 2009, in the first Lok Sabha elections held after the 2008 delimitation of the constituencies, Mr Patel had defeated Mr Patole with a margin of more than 2.5 lakh votes.

However, in a 2018 bypoll, NCP candidate Madhukar Kukade defeated BJP's Hemant Shrawan Patle.

Polling to Bhandara - Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency was held in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, on April 11.

This Lok Sabha constituency has six assembly seats- Tumsar, Bhandara, Sakoli, Arjuni Morgaon, Tirora and Gondia; out of the total six, two are reserved segments - Bhandara and Arjuni Morgaon. Three assembly seats from this Lok Sabha constituency are in Bhandara district, while the other three are in Gondia district.

The Bhandara-Gondiya constituency has 2,184 polling centres for 9.05 lakh male and 9.03 lakh female voters.

The results will be announced on May 23.