Increased voting in Vadgaonsheri, Pune Cantonment crucial for the outcome in Pune Lok Sabha seat

Of the 69,854 more votes cast this election, the maximum are from Vadgaonsheri Assembly segment with an increase of 35,648 among its total count of 2,41,817 votes cast this time. Incidentally, the BJP had lost the Assembly seat in 2019 to NCP, which is now its alliance partner in Mahayuti.

The Kothrud Assembly segment registered an increase of 16,929 votes more than it polled in 2019. The BJP candidate is a resident of the same area and also many senior BJP leaders including state minister Chandrakant Patil, Rajya Sabha MP Medha Kulkarni and former Union Minister Prakash Javadekar are voters in the Assembly segment.
The increase in votes by 9,620 in Pune Cantonment is also going to be crucial considering the large population of minority voters in the Assembly segment.

The Parvati Assembly segment registered an increase of 5,874 votes which is less considering that the BJP has dominance over the area in the last few elections.

The voters of Kasba Assembly segment last year had given a jolt to the BJP in the bypolls by electing Congress leader Ravindra Dhangekar from the saffron bastion. It has shown an increase of 2,949 votes in this Lok Sabha election and Dhangekar himself is a candidate for the parliamentary election.

However, the decrease in voting in Shivajinagar Assembly segment by 1,166 than five years ago is going to bother the BJP as well as Congress. The Assembly seat is represented by a BJP leader while the Congress also has a good presence in the area.

BJP leader Sandeep Khardekar said the BJP will retain the Pune Lok Sabha seat as the increased vote across the city will be in the favour of the party.

Congress leader Ramesh Iyer said the party is confident of winning the seat this time going by the voting trend across the city. “The Congress workers have worked hard to regain its lost bastion of Pune Lok Sabha seat,” he said.

NUMBER OF VOTES CASTE IN PUNE LS SEAT