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Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections: Here are the big winners
1 / 10Prihviraj Chavan: The Congress leader and former chief minister of Maharashtra won the Karad Assembly seat. Chavan defeated seven-time sitting MLA Vilas Patil-Undalkar by over 14,000 votes. (Source: PTI Photo)
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2 / 10Captain Abhimanyu: Tipped to be Haryana CM of BJP, he turned out to be fourth-time lucky - winning from Narnaund by a margin of over 50,000 votes. (Source: Express Photo)
3 / 10Bhupinder Singh Hooda: The outgoing chief minister of Haryana retained his Garhi Sampla Kiloi Assembly seat. (Source: Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia)
4 / 10Panakaja Munde: Gopinath Munde's eldest daughter Pankaja defeated her estranged cousin Dhananjay Munde, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) nominee from Parli Assembly seat by 25,895 votes. She polled 96,904 against Dhananjay's 71,009 votes. (Source: PTI Photo)
5 / 10Ajit Pawar: The NCP leader and former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Pawar retained the family bastion of Baramati, winning the seat by over 89,000 votes, registering his fifth victory. (Source: Express Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
6 / 10Nitesh Rane: Son of Congress leader Narayana Rane, he won the Kankavali seat with 25,000-plus votes.
Seen here with his father Narayan Rane.
7 / 10Abhay Chautala: INLD leader Chautala who is also the younger son of party chief Om Prakash Chautala has won Ellenabad seat by 11,539 votes, defeating Pawan Beniwal of BJP. (Source: PTI)
8 / 10Chhagan Bhujbal: Former state PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal of NCP retained his Yeola Assembly seat, winning it by a handsome margin of 46,442 votes.
9 / 10RR Patil: The NCP leader and former home minister managed to retain the Tasgaon Assembly seat despite the BJP going all out to ensure his ouster. Patil bagged over one lakh votes, more than what he got in 2009.
10 / 10Randeep Singh Surjewala: Surjewala managed to retain his Kaithal seat on a Congress ticket by 23,675 votes.
