Mahayuti leads in Maharashtra Zilla Parishad poll trends; winners list here

The Bharatiya Janata Party BJP and its Mahayuti ally Shiv Sena were ahead of rivals in early trends of the zilla parishad and panchayat samiti polls in Maharashtra as counting of votes began on Monday morning news agency PTI reportedAccording to TV channels the BJP has established a lead in 200 out of 731 seats and the Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena in 137 seats of Zilla Parishads till 2 pmThe NCP is ahead in 120 seats Congress 46 Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray 33 Nationalist Congress Party Sharadchandra Pawar 13 and others in 29BJP and Shiv Sena are now dominating in the rural pockets of the state too after their success in the urban areas in the recently concluded municipal corporation electionsBJP emerging as the strongest single party in many areas especially western and southern MaharashtraIn Pune especially Baramati the NCP has put up a dominant show The party registered its first victory with Pallavi Khetre and is leading in 12 out of the 13 seats in Baramati the stronghold of the Pawar familyIn Dharashiv Dhananjay Sawant fought as an Independent and emerged victorious The nephew of Shiv Sena legislator and former minister Tanaji Sawant Dhananjay had rebelled against his party and decided to fight soloIn Parbhani BJPs Dilip Deshmukh has won from the Zari Zilla Parishad defeating Sonal Deshmukh the daughter of former BJP minister Suresh Warpudkar Sonal Deshmukh had contested the poll on a Shiv Sena UBT ticketIn Latur candidates from the NCP have secured victories in the Nideban Togari and Her District Council in Udgir taluka while BJP candidates emerged victorious in the Vadhvana and Somnathpur District Council groups Congress candidates have triumphed in the Lohara and Nalgi groupsCounting began at 10 am for elections to 12 zilla parishads and 125 panchayat samitis The polls were held on February 7 in Raigad Ratnagiri Sindhudurg Pune Satara Sangli Solapur Kolhapur Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Parbhani Dharashiv and Latur A total of 731 zilla parishad members and 1462 panchayat samiti seats were contestedWhile 2624 candidates contested the zilla parishad polls 4814 were in the fray for the panchayat samiti electionsThe results are seen as significant for the NCP factions led by late Ajit Pawar and party founder Sharad Pawar The two factions had temporarily set aside a bitter twoyear rivalry to contest these local body polls in Pune Satara Solapur and Sangli under an informal alliance fielding candidates under the original lsquoclockrsquo symbolThe two factions had set aside their bitter twoyear rivalry to contest these local body polls in an informal alliance in Pune Satara Solapur and Sangli where candidates from both sides contested under the original clock symbolMaharashtra Zilla Parishad polls 2026 List of winnersParbhaniDilip Prabhakarrao Deshmukh BJP mdash ZariSuchita Anandrao Bharose Shiv Sena mdash Takli BobdePooja Anil Sawant Shiv Sena mdash PingliPratiksha Prabhulal Jaiswal Shiv Sena UBT mdash Takli KumbhakarnaPandurang Balasaheb Khillare Shiv Sena UBT mdash ShingnapurAishwarya Chavan BJP mdash PokharniSangram Prataprao Jamkar NCP mdash JambDharashivDhananjay Sawant Independent Jawala in Paranda talukaSangliSumitra Appasaheb Bedge BJP Jat talukaWith PTI inputs