Osmanabad
Osmanabad is one of the 288 legislative assembly constituencies in Maharashtra.
In the 2019 election, Osmanabad had 353,647 electors and 216,418 valid votes. Shiv Sena candidate Kailas Balasaheb Ghadge Patil won with 87,488 votes, defeating Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Sanjay Prakash Nimbalkar, who secured 74,021 votes, by a margin of 13,467 votes.
In 2014, the constituency had 327,533 electors and 216,462 valid votes. NCP's Rana Jagjit Sinha Padma Sinha Patil won with 88,469 votes, while Shiv Sena candidate Omprakash Bhupalsinha (Pawanraje) Rajenimbalkar came second with 77,663 votes, losing by a margin of 10,806 votes.
Following the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the BJP-led NDA initially formed the government. However, internal divisions within Shiv Sena led Uddhav Thackeray to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition with the NCP and Congress, with Thackeray becoming chief minister. In 2022, Eknath Shinde split from Thackeray's faction, allied with the BJP, and became chief minister, leading to the collapse of the MVA. In 2023, Ajit Pawar left the NCP to join Shinde’s BJP alliance. Maharashtra’s political scene is now largely defined by two main alliances: the MVA (Shiv Sena UBT, NCP SP, Congress) and the Maha Yuti (BJP, Shinde’s Sena, Ajit Pawar’s NCP).
The voting for this constituency is scheduled for November 20 and results will be announced on November 23.