Ashok Mankar of BJP on Monday won the Maharashtra Legislative Council's Nagpur division by-poll. Mankar defeated Anant Gharad of Congress by 37 votes.

The BJP candidate polled 220 votes while Gharad could muster 183. Seven votes were invalid. A total of 410 votes were polled out of 414 voters after four BSP corporators of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) stayed away from the voting.