Goa Election Results 2022: Three Couples Set to Enter State Assembly
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Goa Election Results 2022: Three Couples Set to Enter State Assembly

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The new Goa Assembly will have three pairs of husband and wife among its 40 members. Vishwajit Rane, health minister in the outgoing BJP government, and his wife Divya won comfortably on party tickets from Valpoi and Poriem Assembly seats, respectively. Congress’ Michael Lobo won from his traditional assembly constituency Calangute, while wife Delilah won from Siolim, also on Congress ticket. But the Kandolkars were not so lucky, nor were the father-daughter duo of Churchill Alemao and Valanka.Kavita Kandolkar and her husband Kiran who contested from Thivim and Aldona assembly seats as Trinamool Congress candidates, lost. Kavita lost to sitting BJP MLA Nilkant Halarnkar and Kiran to Congress’ Carlose Fereira.Two other TMC candidates — Churchill Alemao who was contesting from Benaulim and his daughter Valanka who had stood from Navelim, also bit the dust.

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Raju Thodasam Proves Third Time Lucky, Wins on BJP Ticket From Arni

Deccan Chronicle  

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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India Today  

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The Hindu  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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India Today  

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New Indian Express  

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Paithan, Maharashtra Assembly Election Results 2024 Highlights: SHS's Bhumre Vilas Sandipanrao defeats SHS (UBT)'s Dattatray Radhakisan Gorde with 29192 votes

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Brahmapuri, Maharashtra Assembly Election Results 2024 Highlights: INC's Vijay Namdeorao Wadettiwar wins Brahmapuri with 114196 votes
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Brahmapuri, Maharashtra Assembly Election Results 2024 Highlights: INC's Vijay Namdeorao Wadettiwar wins Brahmapuri with 114196 votes

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Julana Assembly Election 2024: Will wrestler Vinesh Phogat clear her first political 'agnipariksha'?

India TV News  

Julana Assembly Election 2024: The Julana Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Congress - Vinesh Phogat BJP - Captain Yogesh Bairagi JJP - Amarjeet Dhanda INLD - Surender Lather AAP - Kavita Dalal Past winners on the seat and the parties 1967: Chaudhary Dal Singh 1968: Narain Singh Kataria 1970: Chaudhary Dal Singh …

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6 months ago

MVA agrees on equal seat-sharing formula for Maharashtra polls; Mahayuti still undecided

New Indian Express  

“In the allocated seats, the respective parties will accommodate their smaller allies such as the Samajwadi Party by Congress, the Peasant and Workers Party by the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, and the farmer leader Raju Shetti-led Swabhimani Shetkari Sangathan and left parties. Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole said that in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress emerged as the single largest …

Lok Sabha election results: BJP, Congress win one seat each in Goa
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Lok Sabha election results: BJP, Congress win one seat each in Goa

Hindustan Times  

The Congress on Tuesday retained the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency after Captain Viriato Fernandes defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Pallavi Shrinivas Dempo by 14,703 votes, data from the Election Commission of India stated. While final numbers are yet to be made available, Viriato got 2,15,672 votes while Dempo received 2,00,969 votes. In her affidavit, Dempo had revealed ownership of …

BJP's Narayan Rane wins by 47,858 votes from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha elections 2024
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BJP's Narayan Rane wins by 47,858 votes from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha elections 2024

Hindustan Times  

Narayan Rane, the Union Minister for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, won from Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in the Lok Sabha election by a margin of 47,858 votes according to the Election Commission of India. Raut had secured a vote share of 50.83%, while his opponent Nilesh Narayan Rane who he defeated had managed to get 31.04%. It includes six state …

Vizianagaram Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Vizianagaram Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin

News 18  

Follow the live updating tables on this page for the 2024 Vizianagaram election result and real-time updates and status of candidates in the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election. Poll Dates Vizianagaram Assembly constituency went to the polls in Phase 1 of the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections on Monday, May 13, 2024. Past Results In the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Assembly …

Pema Khandu-led BJP sweeps Arunachal Pradesh in assembly polls for third consecutive time
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Pema Khandu-led BJP sweeps Arunachal Pradesh in assembly polls for third consecutive time

Hindustan Times  

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday, June 2, returned to power in Arunachal Pradesh for the third time in a row, as the party secured the majority by winning 33 seats out of the total 60 in the assembly elections 2024, the Election Commission website showed. Tesam Pongte of the BJP won from Changlang North, defeating his nearest rival …

A former CM crosses swords with a sitting MP in an engrossing battle at Ramanathapuram
8 months, 1 week ago

A former CM crosses swords with a sitting MP in an engrossing battle at Ramanathapuram

The Hindu  

The Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency, which was expected to acquire the status of a ‘VVIP constituency’ in the wake of reports that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had plans to enter the fray from there, has retained its high-profile status after former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam chose to contest from here as an Independent candidate backed by the BJP-led NDA. BJP …

BSP Lok Sabha candidate leaves home over ‘difference in ideologies’ with Congress MLA wife
8 months, 2 weeks ago

BSP Lok Sabha candidate leaves home over ‘difference in ideologies’ with Congress MLA wife

Hindustan Times  

Bahujan Samaj Party Lok Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat constituency Kankar Munjare on Saturday left his home over a “difference in ideologies” with his Congress MLA wife Anubha Munjare ahead of the upcoming general election. Congress MLA Anubha Munjare and her husband BSP Lok Sabha candidate Kankar Munjare Munjare decided to stay apart from his wife even as the …

Cong picks former Union min Khalap, ex-navyman Viriato Fernandes for Goa seats
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Cong picks former Union min Khalap, ex-navyman Viriato Fernandes for Goa seats

Hindustan Times  

Panaji: The Congress party on Saturday announced the list of six candidates, including for both Goa’s parliamentary seats – North and South for the coming Lok Sabha polls. For the North Goa seat, the Congress has picked former Union minister Ramakant Khalap and for the South Goa seat, the party has fielded former Navyman Viriato Fernandes. Fernandes had previously unsuccessfully …

It's all in the family as husband-wife, brothers win Telangana Assembly polls
1 year ago

It's all in the family as husband-wife, brothers win Telangana Assembly polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Political families in Telangana retained their turfs in Assembly polls with members from the same family getting elected as MLAs. Congress MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and his wife Padmavathi Reddy won from Huzurnagar and Kodad constituencies respectively, repeating their 2014 Assembly polls performance. In 2018, however, while Uttam Kumar Reddy won Huzurnagar, but Padmavathi Reddy lost from Kodad. …

Rajsamand Assembly Election Results 2023 Highlights: BJP's Deepti Kiran Maheshwari defeats INC's Narayan Singh Bhati with 31962 votes
1 year ago

Rajsamand Assembly Election Results 2023 Highlights: BJP's Deepti Kiran Maheshwari defeats INC's Narayan Singh Bhati with 31962 votes

India Today  

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INDIA 4, BJP 3 in key election results, big boost for Opposition bloc
1 year, 3 months ago

INDIA 4, BJP 3 in key election results, big boost for Opposition bloc

India Today  

In a big boost for INDIA ahead of the general election next year, members of the Opposition bloc scored four wins in bypolls to seven seats across six states on Friday. The BJP retained Uttarakhand's Bageshwar seat as candidate Parwati Dass defeated Congress's Basant Kumar by over 2,400 votes. Lastly, in the remaining crucial seat in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghosi, Akhilesh …

Karnataka elections: Gali sole winner in Reddy family battle
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka elections: Gali sole winner in Reddy family battle

Hindustan Times  

Former mining baron and ex-minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who floated his party — Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha — only a few months ago, won in Gangavathi, in Koppal district, while his wife lost the battle in Bellary City. In Bellary City, Congress candidate Nara Bharath Reddy won, while Janardhana Reddy’s wife Aruna Lakshmi, and his estranged brother G Somasekhara Reddy …

Karnataka Assembly to see several father-son, father-daughter pairs and relatives this time
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka Assembly to see several father-son, father-daughter pairs and relatives this time

The Hindu  

This time, the people of Karnataka have elected more than one member of a family to the Assembly. In central Karnataka Former ministers of Congress Shamanur Shivashankarappa and his S.S. Mallikarjun have won Davangere North and Davangere South seats respectively. Former Congress minister A. Manju has won on the JD ticket from Arakalgud seat, while his son Dr. Mantar Gowda …

Karnataka Elections | Fierce fight in four constituencies in Bengaluru
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka Elections | Fierce fight in four constituencies in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

The run-up to the election results in four constituencies — Rajarajeswarinagar, Rajajinagar, Gandhinagar, and Jayanagar — in Bengaluru kept citizens and parties on tenterhooks. In Gandhinagar, the incumbent Dinesh Gundu Rao won by a narrow margin of 105 votes against the BJP’s A.R. From the first round of counting, Mr. Gowda gave fierce competition to Mr. Rao. In the fifth …

Karnataka elections: Former Congress MLA contesting from JD(S) results in triangular contest in Mangaluru City North
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka elections: Former Congress MLA contesting from JD(S) results in triangular contest in Mangaluru City North

The Hindu  

The Congress denying ticket to its former Mangaluru City North MLA B.A. Now a novice, Inayath Ali, a construction firm owner and a former NSUI office-bearer, from the Congress is taking on the sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Y. Bharat Shetty in the constituency. While the BJP’s Kumble Sundar Rao, the first professional Yakshagana artist to get elected to the …

Karnataka Election Highlights: Cong Changes Its Candidate Against Bommai; BJP Releases Final List of Candidates
1 year, 8 months ago

Karnataka Election Highlights: Cong Changes Its Candidate Against Bommai; BJP Releases Final List of Candidates

News 18  

Karnataka Election 2023: The Congress on Wednesday issued a list of star campaigners that includes party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, and former state chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who joined the grand old party this week after quitting the BJP. The ruling BJP in the state has released a list of 40-star campaigners including stalwarts like …

Surprises in Bengal and Maharashtra contests mark bypoll verdicts
1 year, 9 months ago

Surprises in Bengal and Maharashtra contests mark bypoll verdicts

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won two and the Congress won three out of the five seats where bypolls results were announced on Thursday, with focus on two sets of unexpected outcomes in Maharashtra and West Bengal. Congress candidate Dhangekar Ravindra Hemraj celebrates after victory in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll. The biggest surprise came from West Bengal, …

Maharashtra Legislative Council polls: MVA bags 3 seats, defeats BJP on Gadkari's home turf
1 year, 10 months ago

Maharashtra Legislative Council polls: MVA bags 3 seats, defeats BJP on Gadkari's home turf

India Today  

The counting of votes for the Maharashtra Legislative Council concluded on Friday with Maha Vikas Aghadi winning three out of the five assembly seats which went to polls on January 30. Counting of votes for the five Council seats - three teachers segments and two graduate constituencies began on Thursday morning. Interestingly, the MVA coalition, in its first electoral test …

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022 | Kandhal Jadeja wins Kutiyana marking SP’s first win in the State
2 years ago

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022 | Kandhal Jadeja wins Kutiyana marking SP’s first win in the State

The Hindu  

Samajwadi Party candidate Kandhal Jadeja won the Kutiyana seat, marking the first win for the party in Gujarat. Mr. Jadeja rode on the popularity of his mother Santokben Sarmanbhai Jadeja, the late don whose story got a Bollywood retelling as Shabana Azmi’s “Godmother”. He switched to SP after NCP denied him a ticket since he voted for the BJP candidate …

Gujarat Assembly election: 5 contests to look out for between BJP, Congress & AAP
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat Assembly election: 5 contests to look out for between BJP, Congress & AAP

India Today  

As the political parties, including Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, are declaring candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly election, the state is set to witness several interesting and nail-biting electoral contests. * More from IndiaToday.in's Election 2022 coverage: Gujarat assembly polls 2022 | Himachal Pradesh assembly polls 2022 | Full coverage The BJP has fielded sitting MLA …

Gujarat elections: Ravindra Jadeja thanks PM Modi for giving his wife ticket from Jamnagar North
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat elections: Ravindra Jadeja thanks PM Modi for giving his wife ticket from Jamnagar North

India TV News  

Gujarat elections: Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving a ticket to his wife to contest the Gujarat elections. The BJP on Thursday released its first list of 160 candidates for the two-phase elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, fielding Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja from Jamnagar North. I also wish to thank …

Bypoll Results: BJP Bags 4 of 7 Seats, Loses High-stakes Munugode to TRS; Bihar Fight Ends in Draw
2 years, 1 month ago

Bypoll Results: BJP Bags 4 of 7 Seats, Loses High-stakes Munugode to TRS; Bihar Fight Ends in Draw

News 18  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday secured the maximum number of seats as the counting of votes concluded for the by-elections to seven assembly constituencies in six states —Dhamnagar assembly seat of Odisha, Gola Gokarannath in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Bhajan Lal’s family bastion Admapur in Haryana and Gopalganj assembly seat in Bihar. Uttar Pradesh The BJP retained the Gola …

Goa Panchayat polls: BJP claims victory on at least 140 out of 186 seats
2 years, 4 months ago

Goa Panchayat polls: BJP claims victory on at least 140 out of 186 seats

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party claimed victory on 140 seats out of the 186 village panchayat bodies that went to polls on August 10. Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant welcomed the victorious BJP candidates and said that the electoral outcome will be appreciated by the central committee. Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant with victorious Panchayat poll candidates. BJP's state unit chief …

BJP's Joshua De Souza Elected Deputy Speaker of Goa Assembly
2 years, 5 months ago

BJP's Joshua De Souza Elected Deputy Speaker of Goa Assembly

News 18  

BJP MLA Joshua De Souza was on Friday elected as the Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly. Two members of the Aam Admi Party and the lone MLA of the Revolutionary Goans Party, both belonging to the opposition benches, abstained from voting. Admitting that the opposition parties do not have sufficient numbers to win the election for the post of …

Goa in limbo as BJP takes time to form government post Assembly election
2 years, 8 months ago

Goa in limbo as BJP takes time to form government post Assembly election

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party is on course to form the government in Goa for a third consecutive term. There is, for instance, the old rift between Pramod Sawant, acting Chief Minister, and Vishwajit Rane, former Health Minister. While Sawant was the chief ministerial face of the BJP campaign, Rane won the election with a massive majority. In fact, when Pratapsingh …

Goa Assembly election results: Numbers game pitches BJP back to power
2 years, 9 months ago

Goa Assembly election results: Numbers game pitches BJP back to power

The Hindu  

Although the Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged comfortably victorious in Goa, it is the Aam Aadmi Party that can be considered a true winner in the tiny State. Sawant’s nemesis, however, is Vishwajit Rane, State Health Minister and son of former Chief Minister Pratap Singh Rane. He was certain there was enough anger directed at the BJP to make it …

Goa CM Pramod Sawant resigns post polls, says BJP once again going to form govt
2 years, 9 months ago

Goa CM Pramod Sawant resigns post polls, says BJP once again going to form govt

India Today  

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant tendered his resignation on Saturday, paving the way for the formation of the new state government after the Assembly election results were declared on Thursday. On Thursday, as the election results were declared, BJP leader Pramod Sawant stated that the party had the 'confirmed' support of three winning candidates, enough to allow it to form …

For CM seat? BJP leader Vishwajit Rane meets Goa governor, but calls it 'personal visit'
2 years, 9 months ago

For CM seat? BJP leader Vishwajit Rane meets Goa governor, but calls it 'personal visit'

India TV News  

Highlights BJP MLA-elect Vishwajit Rane on Saturday met Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai. BJP MLA-elect Vishwajit Rane on Saturday met Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai triggering political speculation at a time when the new government is yet to be sworn in. Rane has been projecting himself as a contender for the post of Goa chief minister after the …

In Goa, the Route to BJP’s Victory Went through Congress
2 years, 9 months ago

In Goa, the Route to BJP’s Victory Went through Congress

News 18  

Thursday began with local TV studio anchors predicting a drubbing for Goa’s ruling BJP. Pollsters first saw the Congress as lying in tatters — the party had been decimated by defections to the BJP since the last Assembly results. This time round, it also claimed the support of two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party legislators, who had contested in alliance with the …

Goa Assembly results 2022: How Goa’s youngest party RG left Congress at sea in coastal state
2 years, 9 months ago

Goa Assembly results 2022: How Goa’s youngest party RG left Congress at sea in coastal state

Firstpost  

The Revolutionary Goans Party got registered with the Election Commission just a month ago. Aside from the defeat to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the Goa assembly polls, one thing that majorly embarrassed Congress on Thursday was losing a part of its vote bank to the state’s youngest political outfit, the Revolutionary Goans Party. RG, as the party is …

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