Maharashtra Elections 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address public rallies in Maharashtra's Jalgaon and Sakoli today as he campaigns for the second consecutive term for the BJP-led government in the state.

As many as 12,021 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018 for reasons that included bank loans and crop failure, averaging eight deaths a day. This number is over double that of the preceding four-year period from January 2011 to December 2014, when 6,268 farmers killed themselves.

Exit Poll Results 2018 Maharashtra: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will get the maximum number of seats in Maharashtra, NDTV's Poll of Polls, an aggregate of exit polls, predicted today. The alliance, however, may lose some constituencies to the rival alliance of the Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP.

Election results: Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that the outcome of assembly elections in five states is a clear message to the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Shiv Sena and the BJP contested the Maharashtra polls separately in 2014 but later joined hands to form a government in the state.

The use of unmanned drones for the first time in Chhattisgarh elections has revealed the movement of Maoists in the area. Elections are due in Maoist-hit areas of Chhattisgarh tomorrow and the drones are being used to recce the area before security forces move in to sanitise the area for election officials.Polling for 18 of 90 seats - all located i...

A day after the BJP won the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll in Maharashtra, its estranged ally Shiv Sena today alleged that the ruling party's "alliance" with the Election Commission, use of police machinery and trickery of 'trash-like' EVMs had led to its victory.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

Four Lok Sabha by-elections will be held today in three states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Nagaland.

The by-election for the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held today. The seat was previously held by sitting BJP lawmaker Chintaman Wanaga. The election was necessitated after Mr Wanaga died earlier this year.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

By-elections in Nagaland are being held in the Parliamentary Constituency of the state on May 28. Apart from Nagaland, other states to have by-elections on the same date are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil has expressed surprise over the Karnataka poll results where the BJP emerged as the single largest party, and demanded the use of paper ballots in future elections instead of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Senior journalist and Mumbai Press Club President Kumar Ketkar and political leader Narayan Rane, who jumped from Congress to BJP recently, have been elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. The candidates for all six seats from the state were elected unopposed today. Three of the seats went to the BJP, and one each to ally Shiv Sena and the oppos...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address public rallies in Maharashtra's Jalgaon and Sakoli today as he campaigns for the second consecutive term for the BJP-led government in the state.

As many as 12,021 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018 for reasons that included bank loans and crop failure, averaging eight deaths a day. This number is over double that of the preceding four-year period from January 2011 to December 2014, when 6,268 farmers killed themselves.

Exit Poll Results 2018 Maharashtra: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will get the maximum number of seats in Maharashtra, NDTV's Poll of Polls, an aggregate of exit polls, predicted today. The alliance, however, may lose some constituencies to the rival alliance of the Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP.

Election results: Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that the outcome of assembly elections in five states is a clear message to the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Shiv Sena and the BJP contested the Maharashtra polls separately in 2014 but later joined hands to form a government in the state.

The use of unmanned drones for the first time in Chhattisgarh elections has revealed the movement of Maoists in the area. Elections are due in Maoist-hit areas of Chhattisgarh tomorrow and the drones are being used to recce the area before security forces move in to sanitise the area for election officials.Polling for 18 of 90 seats - all located i...

A day after the BJP won the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll in Maharashtra, its estranged ally Shiv Sena today alleged that the ruling party's "alliance" with the Election Commission, use of police machinery and trickery of 'trash-like' EVMs had led to its victory.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

Four Lok Sabha by-elections will be held today in three states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Nagaland.

The by-election for the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held today. The seat was previously held by sitting BJP lawmaker Chintaman Wanaga. The election was necessitated after Mr Wanaga died earlier this year.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

By-elections in Nagaland are being held in the Parliamentary Constituency of the state on May 28. Apart from Nagaland, other states to have by-elections on the same date are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil has expressed surprise over the Karnataka poll results where the BJP emerged as the single largest party, and demanded the use of paper ballots in future elections instead of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Senior journalist and Mumbai Press Club President Kumar Ketkar and political leader Narayan Rane, who jumped from Congress to BJP recently, have been elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. The candidates for all six seats from the state were elected unopposed today. Three of the seats went to the BJP, and one each to ally Shiv Sena and the oppos...