Mumbai North Lok Sabha Results: Piyush Goyal Wins Debut Poll

Union Minister Piyush Goyal from the Bharatiya Janata Party won his debut elections by a large margin of 3,57,608 votes from the much-talked-about Lok Sabha constituency of Mumbai North, according to latest data from Election Commission of India.

Goyal got approximately 6,80,146 votes, while Congress' Bhushan Patil bagged 3,22,538 votes, according to the data.

While results from 24 seats out of 48 seats are out, in the remaining seats both INDIA bloc parties, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress, are ahead on three and nine respective seats in Maharashtra. The third INDIA Bloc party-Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) is leading on six seats. Meanwhile, the NDA, led by BJP, is leading on three seats, and Shiv Sena (Shinde) is ahead on only two seats.

The BJP-led NDA is ahead in approximately 292 out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, whereas the INDIA alliance is leading in more than 232 seats, as per the latest ECI data, which differ from the exit polls' forecasts of a significantly larger win for the NDA.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal, making his electoral debut as the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate from Mumbai North, is pitted against Congress candidate Bhushan Patil. Goyal replaced incumbent Gopal Shetty as the party's choice for the constituency.

The Mumbai North constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha seats—Borivali, Dahisar, Magathane, Kandivali East, Charkop and Malad West. The constituency saw a voter turnout of 57.02% in the fifth phase of elections held on May 20. Of this, 57.83% were male voters, while the female voter turnout was 56.12%.

The BJP has historically held a stronghold in Mumbai North, with Ram Naik winning five times. In 2019, Gopal Shetty further solidified this dominance by securing the Lok Sabha seat with 71.40% of the votes against Congress candidate Urmila Matondkar. Shetty also won in 2014 with 70.15%, while Congress's Sanjay Nirupam secured 22.97% as the runner-up.