Pune, Oct. 28 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Wednesday shared the two Pune Division seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, with BJP candidate Kaustubh Gawade winning the Teachers' constituency and NCP (SP) candidate Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav retaining the Graduates' constituency for the opposition alliance.

Gawade secured 23,117 votes to defeat Independent candidate Sachin Sanap, who was backed by the Shiv Sena led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and received 16,347 votes. Congress candidate and sitting MLC Jayant Asgaonkar finished fourth with 8,965 votes, while Independent candidate Dattatray Sawant finished third.

The Teachers' constituency witnes...