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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: EC announces the full schedule - Check details here

There are total 36 districts in Maharashtra, with a total of 288 seats. Out of this, 234 are General seats, 25 are Schedule Tribe seats, and 29 are Schedule Caste seats.

Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: EC announces the full schedule - Check details here
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The Election Commission on Tuesday, October 15, has finally announced the schedule for Maharashtra Assembly polls, which will take place in a single phase on November 20, 2024.

The term of the 288-seat Maharashtra assembly ends on November 26.

There are total 36 districts in Maharashtra, with a total of 288 seats. Out of this, 234 are General seats, 25 are Schedule Tribe seats, and 29 are Schedule Caste seats.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar stated that there are 9.63 crore voters in Maharashtra, including 4.97 crore men, 4.66 crore women, and 20.93 Lakh first-time voters.

Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 Full Schedule

Notification date: October 22

Last date for filing out nominations: October 29

Scrutiny of nominations: October 30

Last date for withdrawal of Candidature: November 4

Date of Poll: November 20, 2024

Counting of Votes: November 23 

This year, the election is expected to be a two-way fight between the ruling Mahayuti alliance comprising the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP, with the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar's NCP, and the Congress.

The Maharashtra Assembly is currently led by the Mahayuti alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The current government’s strength is BJP (102), NCP (40), SHS (38), BVA (3), PHJSP (2), RSP (1), JSS (1), MNS (1), IND (14).

The opposition has 71 MLAs: INC (37), SS(UBT) (16), NCP(SP) (12), SP (2), CPI(M) (1), PWPI (1). The other party is AIMIM (2) while there are 15 vacant seats in the State Legislative Assembly at present.
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