PTIRutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), is currently leading with a huge margin.
Latke has so far polled 17,278 votes.
After six rounds of counting, 3,859 votes were cast in favour of the None of the Above (NOTA) option, which was more than the number of votes polled by each of the six other independent candidates in fray.
The counting of votes began at 8 am on Sunday at a civic-run school in Mumbai.
As many as 200 officials were involved in the counting process. The Mumbai Police have deputed 300 personnel to maintain law and order, according to an official statement.
Voting for the by-election, necessitated due to the death of sitting Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke in May this year, was held on November 3 and witnessed a low voter turnout of 31.74 per cent.
Rutuja Latke, the wife of Ramesh Latke, is expected to win comfortably after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew its nominee from the byelection.
This is the first electoral contest in Maharashtra after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government collapsed in June following a revolt by a section of Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde.
Shinde subsequently became chief minister in an alliance with the BJP.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, both constituents of the MVA, have supported Rutuja Latke's candidature.
With PTI Inputs
Latke has so far polled 17,278 votes.
After six rounds of counting, 3,859 votes were cast in favour of the None of the Above (NOTA) option, which was more than the number of votes polled by each of the six other independent candidates in fray.
The counting of votes began at 8 am on Sunday at a civic-run school in Mumbai.
As many as 200 officials were involved in the counting process. The Mumbai Police have deputed 300 personnel to maintain law and order, according to an official statement.
Voting for the by-election, necessitated due to the death of sitting Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke in May this year, was held on November 3 and witnessed a low voter turnout of 31.74 per cent.
Rutuja Latke, the wife of Ramesh Latke, is expected to win comfortably after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew its nominee from the byelection.
This is the first electoral contest in Maharashtra after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government collapsed in June following a revolt by a section of Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde.
Shinde subsequently became chief minister in an alliance with the BJP.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, both constituents of the MVA, have supported Rutuja Latke's candidature.
With PTI Inputs
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