Live : Osmanabad Assembly Election 2019

In the 2014 general elections, Shiv Sena's Ravindra Gaikwad won from Osmanabad Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 2,34,325 votes. Mr Gaikwad had won the elections after polling 6,07,699 votes, while his nearest opponent Nationalist Congress Party or NCP's Padmasinha Patil bagged 3,73,374 votes.

Shiv Sena has dropped Ravindra Gaikwad (who was in the news for the chappal assault on an Air India staffer) this time.

In the 2019 general elections, Osmanabad will witness the only family tussle for supremacy with Shiv Sena nominee Omraje Nimbalkar grappling with his cousin and NCP candidate Ranajagjitsinh Patil.

NCP candidate Ranajagjitsinh Patil's father, Padamsinh Patil, is an accused in the murder of Shiv Sena candidate Omraje Nimbalkar's father.

Padamsinh Patil was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the 2006 murder and the verdict in the case is expected soon.

A Congress bastion till 1991, Osmanabad is the only seat in the state where five out of the six Assembly legislators are from Congress-NCP and one from Shiv Sena. With a total 85 per cent rural electorate, the constituency has 17,26,793 eligible voters, including 9,32,838 males and 7,93,955 females.

Shiv Sena has won from this constituency three times while NCP had wrested this constituency once - in the 2009 general elections.

This Lok Sabha constituency consists of six Assembly segments. They are: Ausa, Umarga (SC), Tuljapur, Osmanabad, Paranda and Barshi.

In the 2019 general elections, Osmanabad Lok Sabha constituency recorded 57.04 per cent voting.