Live : Nagpur Assembly Election 2019

Nitin Gadkari, a senior Union Cabinet minister in current government, who held Road Transport, Water Resources and Shipping portfolios in different occasions, won the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 general elections with a margin of 2,84,848 votes trouncing Indian National Congress (INC or Congress)'s Vilas Muttemwar, a four time Member of Parliament and former minister of state (independent charge) in first UPA government.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Nitin Gadkari was polled 5,87,767 while runner-up from the Congress party netted 3,02,919 votes.

Vilas Muttemwar had won the constituency four times before and after the 2008 delimitation. He emerged victorious from this constituency in years 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009.

A traditional Congress fortress, Nagpur had gone to non-Congress parties only thrice after 1971.

All India Forward Bloc won the elections here in 1971 while a turncoat from Congress won the seat on behalf of BJP in 1996.

Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency is consisted of 6 assembly segments from Maharashtra state assembly. The six constituencies are Nagpur South West, Nagpur South, Nagpur East, Nagpur Central, Nagpur West and Nagpur North (SC).

In 2019 general elections, Nitin Gadkari is pitted against Congress's Nanabhau Patole.

In Nagpur, there are 2,065 polling centres for 10.96lakh male and 10.63 lakh female voters. The total number of voters in Nagpur is 21.60 lakh.

General elections 2019 in Nagpur Parliamentary constituency will be held on April 11 during the first phase and the results will be declared on May 3.