Jalgaon Rural Assembly constituency is one of the 11 seats in the district of Jalgaon in Maharashtra. The constituency, which has a population of more than 337,000, has been electing Gulab Raghunath Patil of the formerly undivided Shiv Sena for the past two elections held in 2019 and 2014.
The seat falls under the Jalgaon Lok Sabha constituency, which has 6 more seats- Jalgaon City, Amalner Assembly constituency, Chalisgaon Erandol Assembly constituency and Pachora.
Jalgaon Rural will have 331 polling centres across the seat to ensure a smooth voting process for all the voters, according to the Maharashtra state election commission.
Demography
Jalgaon district has 11 total seats with a total population of close to 3.7 million. Jalgaon Rural, which is a general seat, has a total population of 337,386. Out of the total, the constituency has a total of over 164,000 women voters.
The Jalgaon Rural seat was established in 2008 after the Central government carried out delimitations of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies. Jalgaon Tehsil (part) Revenue Circle Kanalde, Asoda, Jalgaon, Nashirabad and Mhasawad and Dharangaon Tehsil fall under the Jalgaon Rural seat.
The region, under which Jalgaon district falls, is rich in volcanic soils and is known for cotton production. The constituency is also a major trading centre for tea, gold, cotton, pulses and bananas.
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The other constituencies in the district are: Chopda (ST), Raver, Bhusawal (SC), Jalgaon City, Amalner, Erandol, Chalisgaon, Pachora, Jamner and Muktainagar.
Key contenders
Gulab Raghunath Patil has won the seat for two out of the three elections held since its formation in 2008. Patil had won the seat in 2019 with a margin of over 46,000 votes, securing over 53 percent of the total votes. Gulabrao Baburao Deokar, who is currently in the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar’s faction), had won the seat in the 2009 Assembly elections.
In the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, both Patil and Deokar are the two main candidates representing the Mahayuti alliance- consisting of BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)- consisting of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction), Indian National Congress an NCP (Sharad Pawar).
MVA, which is the opposition bloc, is locked in a close contest with the ruling Mahayuti front in the elections to the 288-member assembly on November 20.
Votes will be counted three days later, on November 23.
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