scorecardresearch
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicMaharashtra Assembly Election Results

Topic: Maharashtra Assembly Election Results

Big strategies gave big results to Mahayuti in Maharashtra—and the story is far from over

The multiplier effect of various factors and strategies ensured bigger-than-expected results for Mahayuti. But this historic win has also underlined the limitations of morality in politics.

Nanded paradox: Same voters, same voting day, but MVA wins LS fight while Mahayuti bags assembly seats

While Congress has questioned poll process & varying voter preferences in bypoll & assembly elections held on same day, BJP functionary says ‘sympathy factor involved’ in MVA win in LS seat.

After 132-seat jackpot in Maharashtra, BJP looks beyond coalition dharma. Fadnavis is no.1 in CM race

BJP's Amit Shah set to head a meeting with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP in the national capital to make final decision on who gets the top post.

Despite aggressive run & 200 candidates, Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA fails to make a dent in Maharashtra polls

The party wished to build a third front against Mahayuti & MVA, but has been unable to secure a single assembly win for the second straight time.

Kingmaker dreams crushed, Owaisi’s AIMIM narrows Maharashtra footprint

AIMIM wins just one seat, Muslim-dominated Malegaon Central, and that too by a razor-thin margin of just 162 votes. It had won both this seat and Dhule City in 2019.

After Haryana, RSS took charge of Maharashtra, Jharkhand. What results say about the Sangh factor for BJP

Unlike LS polls, RSS & BJP worked ‘tirelessly’ in Maharashtra & Jharkhand. While the BJP-led Mahayuti put on a solid show in Maharashtra, the party fell short in the other.

As Ajit Pawar’s NCP cements dominance, what lies ahead for Sharad Pawar & his party

The MVA’s debilitating loss and within that the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP)'s poor performance raises a question: What is the party's future considering he is at a ripe age of 83 years?

From 13 to 0 in 15 years: Raj Thackeray’s MNS hits new low, hurts Shinde in Mumbai

Party fails to get a single MLA elected in Maharashtra Assembly for first time since its formation in 2006. It contested from 128 seats, of which 26 were in Mumbai.

Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan fails to deliver for BJP again as Congress ekes out win in Nanded

However, there were also two victories in the assembly polls that could help salvage Ashok Chavan's prestige: his daughter's win in Bhokar and his protege's success in Deglur.

In Maharashtra, both national parties set records—BJP its best ever tally, Congress its worst ever

Of the 74 seats where Congress & BJP faced off directly, the former was able win only in seven. Congress leaders blame faltering response to Ladki Bahin scheme, candidate selection.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.