ECI Announces Polls to 16 Maharashtra Council Seats
Now, the CEO of Maharashtra has informed that these criteria have been fulfilled in respect of all the said constituencies.
Mumbai: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced bye-election to one seat and biennial elections to 16 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) from Local Authorities’ Constituencies. The polling is scheduled for June 18 and the counting of the votes will be held on June 22.
These elections are critical for these local authorities’ constituencies, which could not be conducted earlier due to the non-fulfilment of mandatory criteria related to the functioning of local bodies and the availability of electors.
“Now, the CEO of Maharashtra has informed that these criteria have been fulfilled in respect of all the said constituencies. Therefore, the commission has decided to conduct the biennial election to the Maharashtra legislative council from the above-mentioned 16 Local Authorities’ Constituencies,” the ECI notification said.
The BJP-led Mahayuti is anticipated to perform well given their prior majority in local bodies’ elections. In the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the BJP-led Mahayuti has 234 members, whereas the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has only 49 members.
The 16 local authorities constituencies going to the polls include Solapur, Ahmednagar, Thane, Jalgaon, Sangli-cum-Satara, Nanded, Yavatmal, Pune, Bhandara-Gondia, Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Nashik, Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli, Amravati, Osmanabad-Latur-Beed, Parbhani-Hingoli, and Aurangabad-Jalna.
Among members whose terms ended earlier were Prashant Paricharak (Solapur) and Arunkaka Jagtap, who retired as MLCs in January 2022, and Ravindra Phatak (Thane), who retired from the council in June 2022.
Several council members retired in December 2022, including Chandubhai Patel from Jalgaon, Mohanrao Kadam from Sangli-Satara, Amarnath Rajurkar from Nanded, Dushyant Chaturvedi from Yavatmal, Anil Bhosale from Pune and Parinay Fuke from Bhandara-Gondia.
Aniket Tatkare (Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Narendra Darade (Nashik), Ramdas Ambatkar (Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli), Pravin Pote (Amravati), Suresh Dhas (Osmanabad-Latur-Beed), and Viplove Bajoria (Parbhani-Hingoli) retired in June 2024, while the term of Ambadas Danve (Aurangabad-Jalna) ended in August 2025.
The by-election from the Nagpur Local Authorities’ constituency was announced after Chandrashekhar Bawankule vacated the seat following his election to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in November 2024.