Live : Nashik Assembly Election 2019

In 2014 general elections, Hemant Godse of Shiv Sena was elected from Nashik Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,87,336 votes. Godse was polled 4,94,735 votes while his nearest rival and former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Chhagan Bhujbal bagged 3,07,399 votes.

A key battle will unfold in Nashik in 2019 general elections, with NCP's Sameer Bhujbal, former Member of Parliament (MP) and nephew of Chhagan Bhujbal, challenging the sitting Shiv Sena MP, Hemant Godse.

In the 2019 general elections, Nashik recorded 59.43 per cent polling when the constituency went to polls on April 29 during the fourth phase of the elections.

Sameer Bhujbal and Godse will lock horns amidst the backdrop of both the uncle-nephew being jailed - Chhagan Bhujbal for two years and Sameer Bhujbal for one-and-half years - in a money-laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Bhujbal, a former Mumbai Mayor and close the founder-patriarch of Shiv Sena, the late Bal Thackeray, suddenly quit in 1991, and was rewarded with a ministry in the Congress government.

This time, Godse faces an uphill task with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supporting Sameer Bhujbal, and also Congress-NCP led Mahagathbandhan.

The constituency has 15,93,237 voters including 5,24,572 men and 7,42,780 women.

The Nashik Lok Sabha constituency consists of Sinnar, Nashik East, Nashik Central, Nashik West, Deolali, and Igatpuri assembly segments from Maharashtra state Legislative Assembly.