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Highest and lowest margins in PMC polls: Mankar wins by 26,497 votes, Londhe by 55

Khandu Londhe of the BJP won the election by the lowest margin of just 55 votes.

2 min readPuneUpdated: Jan 18, 2026 08:04 PM IST

Raghavendra alias Bapu Deepak Mankar, a BJP candidate from ward number 25 (b), won the PMC elections with maximum margin of 26,497 votes.

Raghavendra alias Bapu Deepak Mankar (lef), a BJP candidate from ward number 25 (b), won the PMC elections with maximum margin of 26,497 votes. Khandu Londhe (right) of the BJP won the election by the lowest margin of just 55 votes, from ward number 17 (a). (Express Photos)

As the results of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) polls were announed on Friday, some candidates scraped through the thinnest of vote margins while some managed large comfortable wins.

Raghavendra alias Bapu Deepak Mankar, a BJP candidate from ward number 25 (b), won the PMC elections with maximum margin of 26,497 votes.

Bapu Mankar defeated Sameer Gaikwad of Shivsena (UBT) by securing 31,981 votes. Gaikwad got 5,484 votes. Besides, all four BJP candidates from ward 25 (Shaniwar Peth – Mahatma Phule Mandai) emerged victorious. The region is known to be a BJP stronghold.

Mankar is followed by BJP’s Bharatbhushan Barate who won the elections by a margin of 25,027 votes from ward number 32 (b). Barate secured 34,198 votes, defeating Kiran Bartakke of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Bartake got 9,171 votes. All BJP candidates from ward 32 (Warje – Popular Nagar) too won the election.

Then, BJP’s Ratnamala Satav won the election by the third largest margin. She got 41,514 votes and defeated NCP’s Vasundhara Ubale by 23,136 votes from ward number 4 (b). Ubale received 18,378 votes. Even from ward number 4 (Kharadi – Wagholi), all four BJP candidates won.

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Lowest margins

Khandu Londhe of the BJP won the election by the lowest margin of just 55 votes, from ward number 17 (a). In a close contest, Londhe got 14,223 votes, defeating NCP’s Ashok Kamble, a former corporator, who received 14,168 votes. Three BJP candidates and one from NCP won the elections from ward number 17 (Ramtekdi – Malwadi – Vaiduwadi).

BJP’s Vivek Yadav defeated Avinash Bagwe of the Congress from ward number 22 (d) by a small margin of 62 votes. Yadav got 12,423 votes, as against 12,361 votes secured by Avinash Bagwe, a former corporator. Avinash’s father Ramesh Bagwe is a former MLA and Minister from Congress. Three from the BJP and one candidate of Congress won the election from ward number 22 (Kasewadi – Dias Plot).

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NCP’s Ravi Tingre defeated BJP’s Sudhir Waghmode by a margin of only 138 votes from ward number 2 (b).
Tingre got 15,321 votes, while Waghmode received 15,183 votes. All four candidates who won from ward number 2 (Phule Nagar – Nagpur Chawl) are from NCP.

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