The Maval Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra going to vote on April 29. It covers - Pimpri, Chinchwad, Maval, Karjat, Panvel, and Uran. Three of them are from Pune while the other three are in Raigad.

There’s an interesting battle on the cars here as NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s son and Sharad Pawar’s grandson Parth taking on Shiv Sena’s Shrirang Barne

In 2014, Shrirang Chandu Barne of Shiv Sena won with a margin of 1.57 lakh votes beating Laxman Padaurang Jagtap of the PWP.

 In 2009, Ganajan Babar of the Shiv Sena managed to secure his winning position by getting 80,000 votes against NCP’s Azam Pansare.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Adv. Kanade Sanjay Kisan	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	PARTH AJIT PAWAR	Nationalist Congress Party
3	SHRIRANG APPA CHANDU BARNE	Shivsena
4	Jagdish alias Ayyappa Shamrao Sonawane	Kranti Kari Jai Hind Sena
5	JAYA SANJAY PATIL	Ambedkarite Party of India
6	PANDHARINATH NAMDEO PATIL	Bahujan Mukti Party
7	Prakash Bhivaji Mahadik	Bhartiya Navjawan Sena (Paksha)
8	MADAN SHIVAJI PATIL	Bharatiya Praja Surajya Paksha
9	RAJARAM NARAYAN PATIL	Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi
10	SUNIL BABAN GAIKWAD	Bahujan Republican Socialist Party
11	AJAY HANUMANT LONDHE	Independent
12	Amruta Abhijit Apte	Independent
13	Navnath Vishwanath Dudhal	Independent
14	PRASHANT alias BABARAJE GANPAT DESHMUKH	Independent
15	BALKRUSHNA DHANAJI GHARAT	Independent
16	RAKESH PRABHAKAR CHAVAN	Independent
17	RAJENDRA MARUTI KATE (PATIL)	Independent
18	VIJAY HANUMANT RANDIL	Independent
19	SURAJ ASHOKRAO KHANDARE	Independent
20	SURESH SHRIPATI TAUR	Independent
21	Dr. SOMNATH ALIAS BALASHAHEB ARJUN POL	Independent

The Maharashtra Mahabharata

The fate of 323 candidates, including Union minister Subhash Bhamre, Congress nominees Milind Deora and Urmila Matondkar, will be decided in the fourth and final phase of polling in Maharashtra covering 17 Lok Sabha constituencies on April 29.

More than 3.11 crore voters spread across the 17 Lok Sabha seats located in North Maharashtra, Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and parts of Western Maharashtra, are eligible to exercise their franchise.

As many as 33,314 polling stations are being set up in these constituencies, where 323 candidates are in the poll field.

Of the total 3,11,92,823 voters, 1,66,31,707 are male, 1,45,59,698 female and 1,418 from the third gender.

The constituencies voting on April 29 are: Nandurbar, Dhule, Dindori, Nashik (North Maharashtra), Palghar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane (located on Mumbai's outskirts), Mumbai North, Mumbai North-West, Mumbai North-Central, Mumbai North-East, Mumbai South and Mumbai South-Central, Maval, Shirur (Pune district) and Shirdi (Ahmednagar district).

In 2014, the BJP had won 8 of these 17 seats, while its ally Shiv Sena bagged the remaining 9.

The Palghar seat was won by the BJP in 2014. However, this time the Shiv Sena is contesting on the seat as part of a pre-poll alliance between the two saffron allies.

Opposition Congress, which had won just two seats in 2014 in Maharashtra, is facing a tough task of reclaiming its lost support base in North Maharashtra and Mumbai.

The NCP is fighting to regain its position in Thane district and Western Maharashtra.

Prominent candidates in the fray include Bhamre (Dhule-BJP), actress-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar (Mumbai North), Priya Dutt (Mumbai North-Central Congress) and Deora (Mumbai South).

From the NCP, its president Sharad Pawar's grandnephew Parth Pawar is making his electoral debut from Maval, while popular Marathi actor Amol Kolhe is the NCP candidate from Shirur.

Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh (80). Voting for 31 of these seats was held in the first three phases - April 11, 18 and 23.

Counting of votes will take place on May 23.

This is for the first time that Maharashtra is having a four-phase polling in Lok Sabha elections.