In the recent Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) secured 17 seats, marking a significant decrease from 2019. The BJP’s share dwindled to nine seats from the 23 it won previously.
Maharashtra is the second-largest state in terms of Lok Sabha constituencies, with 48 seats. Elections here were conducted across five phases on April 19, 26, May 7, 13, and 20.
Voter turnout in the state stood at 61.33%, slightly higher than the 60.79% turnout recorded in 2019.
Earlier, Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar of the NCP had realigned themselves with the BJP, while their counterparts, Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar of NCP, remained aligned with the INDIA bloc.
New Constituencies Won by BJP in 2024:
Palghar: Dr. Hemant Vishnu Savara
Satara: Udayanraje Bhosale
Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg: Narayan Tatu Rane
Constituencies Retained by BJP in 2024:
Nagpur: Nitin Gadkari
Mumbai North: Piyush Goyal
Jalgaon: Smita Wagh
Raver: Raksha Khadse
Akola: Anup Sanjay Dhotre
Constituencies Lost by the BJP in 2024:
Mumbai North East
Mumbai North central
Nandurbar
Dhule
Ahmadnagar
Beed
Wardha
Latur
Solapur
Bhandara-Gondiya
Madha
Gadchiroli-Chimur
Sangli
Nanded
Jalna
Dindori
Bhiwandi
In the 2019 general elections, the NDA, comprising the BJP and combined Shiv Sena at the time, secured 41 seats, while the UPA was limited to 5 seats. Similarly, in the 2014 general elections, the NDA won 41 seats, with the UPA securing 6 seats.
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