Marking a sharp turnaround from the party’s Lok Sabha performance, Ajit Pawar’s faction won 41 out of total 59 seats it contested.

Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew Yugendra Pawar, who was endorsed by 83-year-old Sharad Pawar, by a margin of over 1 lakh votes.

The Ajit Pawar-led NCP has defeated the NCP (SP) headed by his uncle Sharad Pawar in 29 seats in the contest between the two rival factions in the Maharashtra assembly elections

In the contest between the two rival NCP factions in the Maharashtra assembly elections, the Ajit Pawar-led party defeated the outfit headed by his uncle Sharad Pawar on 29 seats. The NCP(Sharadchandra Pawar) came out winner in six constituencies.

MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar's self-proclaimed swansong in electoral politics ended in a damp squib with his nephew's NCP winning more than 4x the seats that his own party could muster. In retaliation for Ajit's decision to field his wife against Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule,

This is for the first time that he has not faced the media on an election result day,” says a senior colleague of Pawar as his nephew lays claim to the "real NCP" label.

The results settled the debate over which NCP faction wields greater electoral clout after the erstwhile party split in July last year

In a clash of NCP factions, Ajit Pawar's party secured a resounding victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections, winning 29 seats directly against his uncle Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP). Ajit Pawar's party won or was leading in 41 out of 59 contested seats,

Maharashtra voters deliver decisive blow to Sharad Pawar, bolstering Ajit Pawar's claim over NCP in ongoing power struggle.

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