Dharavi election results 2024 Live: Congress’ Jyoti Gaikwad wins seat with 23,459 margin

Located in the Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha region, Dharavi is one of the 10 Assembly constituencies in the Mumbai City district reserved for Scheduled Castes.

In the 2024 election, Congress candidate Dr Jyoti Eknath Gaikwad won the seat with a margin of 23,459 votes. She got 70,727 total votes. In contrast, Rajesh Khandare, who received the Shiv Sena ticket to contest for the same seat this year, got the second most number of 47,268 total votes.

Before the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Dharavi redevelopment project, undertaken by industrialist Gautam Adani’s group, had become a central issue.

The Congress repeatedly labelled the project as a “Modani enterprise”, while the Shiv Sena (UBT) took to the streets to oppose it. MVA leaders also claimed recent decisions by the Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti government disproportionately benefit the Adani Group.

Previous elections

In 2019, Indian National Congress candidate Gaikwad Varsha Eknath won the seat by a margin of 11,824 votes in the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. Varsha had also won the 2014 elections.

In 2019, the BJP emerged as the largest party with 105 of the 288 seats, while the then undivided Shiv Sena won 56 seats. The Congress and NCP got 44 and 54 seats.

Dharavi: Polling Date

In Maharashtra, polling in all 288 seats, including Dharavi, happened on November 20. The counting of votes is taking place on November 23.

Dharavi: Candidates List

In the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, 12 candidates competed for the Dharavi seat. Here’s the full list:

Candidate Names	Party	Votes
Dr. Gaikwad Jyoti Eknath	Indian National Congress (won)	70,727
Rajesh Shivdas Khandare	Shiv Sena	47,268
Manohar Kedari Raibage	Bahujan Samaj Party	6,196
Ananta Sambhaji Mahajan	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)	209
Manoj Laxman Wackchawre	Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)	358
Ajay Ramchandra Dethe	Independent	126
Akash Laxman Kharatmal	Independent	280
Ishwar Vilas Tathawade	Independent	100
Ghazi Saaduddin	Independent	3,331
Dalvi Raju Sahebrao	Independent	119
Prashant Uttam Kamble	Independent	236
Adv. Sandeep Dattu Katke	Independent	598
NOTA	–	1,756

2019 result:

During the 2019 polls in Maharashtra, Congress candidate Gaikwad Varsha Eknath won the seat after receiving 53,954 votes, while Shiv Sena candidate Ashish Vasant More stood second with 42,130 votes.