Overview
- Final count shows Congress winning 43 of 70 seats, with allies VBA at 4 and NCP at 1, while the BJP finished with 22.
- The Eknath Shinde–led Shiv Sena failed to win any seats, leaving the Congress–VBA bloc with a comfortable majority.
- Ravindra Chavan’s campaign claim that Vilasrao Deshmukh’s memory would be erased became the race’s defining flashpoint, and he later apologized.
- Turnout neared 70 percent, indicating unusually strong participation across Latur.
- The outcome, driven locally by MLA Amit Deshmukh, overturns the previous election when the BJP won 36 seats and the Congress 33.