Karad South Assembly Election 2024: Constituency, candidates, voting and result date and more

Former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan of the Congress is eying a third straight term as MLA from the Karad South seat. (Image: X/Prithviraj Chavan)

An intense battle in unfolding for the Karad South Assembly constituency, one of the 288 seats going to polls in the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024. On opposite sides are two rivals who will have a go for the third consecutive time.

Former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is the Congress candidate from the seat who will take on Atul Bhosale of the BJP. Bhosle has contested against Chavan from the seat twice since 2014, but been unsuccessful.

South Karad Assembly Election: About the Constituency

Karad South is an assembly constituency in Maharashtra and falls under the Satara Lok sabha seat. It is an unreserved seat which has 26,17,745 registered voters, including 13,28,181 male voters, 12,89,455 female voters, and 109 third gender voters.

The constituency will go to polls on November 20, the day voting will be held in all 288 Assembly seats in the state. As many as 342 polling stations will be set up for voting, the Election Commission of India has said.

Karad South Election 2024: Voting and Result date

Voting in Karad South Assembly constituency will be held on November 20.
The Karad South Assembly Election Result 2024 will be declared on November 23.

Karad South Election 2024: Candidates list

Prithviraj Chavan - Indian National Congress
Atul Bhosale - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Krishna Gaikwad - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Indrajit Gujar - Swabhimani Paksha
Mahesh Jirange - Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSP)
Sanjay Gade - Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA)
Vishwjeet Undalkar - Independent
Shama Shaikh - Independent

Karad South Election Result 2024: Prithviraj Chavan vs Atul Bhosle

All eyes in Maharashtra will be on this key fight in the Karad South seat where heavyweights Prithviraj Chavan and Atul Bhosale square off for a fight to the finish. The two candidates, from the Congress and BJP, respectively, have locked horns twice earlier with Chavan emerging as the winner each time.

However, The BJP is confident of turning the tables this time and has pointed to the reducing margin in the last two elections to claim am upper hand. Chavan's victory margin also halved from 18,210 votes in 2014 to 9,130 votes in 2019.

Additionally, the BJP is also drawing confidence from its victory from the Satara Lok Sabha constituency in the general elections held earlier this year. BJP's Srimant Udayanraje Bhonsle won from Satara Lok Sabha (MP) seat by a margin of 32,771 votes, defeating Shashikant Jayvantrao Shinde of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).

On the other hand, Chavan sees no real challenge to his victory and claims that the margin of victory in the past two elections was narrow on account of rebels who cut into Congress votes. This time, the Congress has managed to wean away influential rebels from the electoral fray in hopes of clearing Chavan's path to victory.

Karad South Elections: Brief History

Since 1952, the Karad South Assembly constituency has seen only three MLAs over the past nine decades. These include Yashwantrao Mohite from 1952 to 1980, Vilas Patil from 1980 to 2014 and from Prithviraj Chavan 2014 to 2019.

The seat is being seen as a Congress bastion on account of the strong support base that the Chavan family has enjoyed here. Before becoming the Karad South MLA, Chavan served as the Lok Sabha MP from Karad for three terms.

His father Dajisaheb Chavan was Karad MP for four terms. After the passing away of his father, his mother Premala Chavan represented the seat for four terms.