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Congress's Abhijeet Wanjari has retained the Nagpur Graduates' Constituency seat in the Maharashtra Legislative Council election, defeating BJP's Sudhakar Kohale by 3,271 votes. Wanjari secured 67,231 votes after the transfer of preference votes, while Kohale received 63,960. The counting process lasted over 41 hours, with neither candidate initially reaching the required quota of 75,438 votes, leading to the redistribution of eliminated candidates' preferences.
Wanjari attributed his victory to sustained engagement with graduates, students, and academics over the past six years, and stated that the result shows the constituency is no longer a BJP stronghold. The election was conducted via paper ballots under a preferential voting system, with 1,50,874 valid votes out of 1,65,906 total votes cast. Nagpur is the political base of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, both of whom campaigned for Kohale.
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