The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is poised to retain power in Maharashtra, with the latest Election Commission figures showing the alliance leading in 204 out of 288 assembly seats. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is trailing,

The Mahayuti alliance appears all set to retain Maharashtra for the third consecutive term, while the JMM and team have crossed the halfway mark in Jharkhand.

The 2024 Assembly elections mark a significant shift in Maharashtra’s political landscape, with both the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entering the fray after internal splits.

The BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP alliance currently holds power in the state, and exit polls suggest a strong comeback for the Mahayuti Alliance

Now, Maharashtra eagerly awaits the results to see who will take charge of the state's leadership. The majority mark in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly is 145. What did the exit poll results say?

Exit polls accurately predicted the NDA's victory in Maharashtra but failed to gauge the scale of their win. Conversely, most polls incorrectly predicted an NDA victory in Jharkhand, where the Congress-JMM alliance is projected to win.

The Congress could not maintain the momentum of its Lok Sabha performance when it won 13 seats out of 48 and the MVA alliance emerged victorious in 30 constituencies.

This high-stakes family clash comes on the heels of the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, where NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule defeated Ajit Pawar's wife, Sunetra, by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes,