There has been a big twist in the elections in the Satara Lok Sabha constituency. NCP's Shashikant Shinde was leading in most of the vote count rounds since morning. However, a few moments ago, BJP's Udayanraje (Udayan Raje Bhosale) broke Shinde's lead and emerged victorious. Bhosale was seen being embraced by family and getting emotional over his win.
In the 14th round of vote counting, Udayanraje took a lead of 4000 votes. After this, the Satara royal's supporters started celebrating at the Jalmandir Palace. At the end of the 15th round, Udayanraje had a lead of 9736 votes. Udayanraje got 4,79,304 votes while Shashikant Shinde got 4,69,568 votes.
Udayanraje Bhosale got 27,556 votes in the first round while Shashikant Shinde got 27,507 votes. In the second round, Udayanraje got 53,304 votes while Shashikant Shinde got 57,746 votes. In the third round, Udayanraje got 74,310 votes, and Shashikant Shinde got 82 thousand 946 votes, in the fourth round Udayanraje received 99 thousand 273 votes and Shashikant Shinde was at 1 lakh 12 thousand 475 votes.
At the end of the fifth round, Udayanraje got 1,28,375 votes while Shashikant Shinde got 1,41,082 votes. Shashikant Shinde's lead after the second round continued till the ninth round. Shashikant Shinde was leading by 19,071 votes when the results of the nine rounds were out.
The results have given the verdict in favour of Bhosale and his supporters have surrounded the constituency in sprit of victory.