As of 1:45 PM on Saturday, Aaditya Thackeray held a lead of 6,120 votes over Milind Deora, with 12 of the 17 counting rounds completed. Deora, a former Congress MP who joined Shinde’s Shiv Sena earlier this year, had briefly overtaken Thackeray during the initial rounds of counting before the latter regained his advantage.

Shiv Sena UBT leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray has retained his Worli seat defeating Shiv Sena nominee and former Union minister Milind Deora and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena

Thackeray is seeking a reelection from the seat.  Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly were held on November 20.

In the 2019 Maharashtra assembly election, Aditya Thackeray polled over 69 per cent votes, defeating NCP's Suresh Mane.

Shiv Sena candidate and former Union minister Milind Deora mocked Uddhav Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray after he won the Worli constituency with a wafer-thin margin on Saturday. According to the data on the ECI’s website,

Aaditya Thackeray, the sitting MLA from Shiv Sena (UBT) is taking on Milind Deora, a member of the Shiv Sena and Rajya Sabha, and Sandeep Deshpande of the MNS in the Worli assembly seat in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

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As of now, the counting of votes is underway, and the Worli constituency is among the most closely watched, given the intense rivalry between the Shiv Sena factions.

Aaditya, the incumbent MLA from Worli, secured over 69 per cent of the vote in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, defeating NCP's Suresh Mane

One of the biggest Sena vs Sena battles in Maharashtra has Aditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray, in a narrow lead over Milind Deora, the candidate from the Eknath Shinde faction.