Live : Madha Assembly Election 2019

In 2014 general elections, Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was elected from Madha constituency with a margin of 25,344 votes. Mohite-Patil was polled 4,89,989 votes while his nearest rival Sadabhau Khot of Swabhimani Paksha (SWP) bagged 4,64,645 votes.

NCP Supreme Sharad Pawar had won this constituency in 2009, in the first general elections held to this constituency, after Madha was carved out in 2008 delimitation process of parliamentary constituencies in India. Pawar had won the elections with a margin of more than 3 lakh votes.

In an unexpected move, NCP dropped sitting MP and party strongman Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil and denied a ticket to his son Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil. The latter switched over to the BJP, but the saffron party gave ticket to a royal descendent, Ranjitsinh Naik-Nimbalkar, who recently quit the Congress.

Naik-Nimbalkar will lock horns with NCP nominee Sanjay Shinde, a bitter rival of the powerful Mohite-Patil clan here.

The constituency has 17,27,308 voters, including 9,12,736 males and 8,14,572 females.

In general elections 2019, Madha recorded 63.58 per cent polling against 62.53 per cent in 2014.

The Madha Lok Sabha constituency is consisted of Karmala, Madha, Sangole, Malsiras (SC), Phaltan (SC) and Man Assembly segments.