BJP candidate list for Maharashtra State elections 2019

In 2014 general elections for the Maharashtra Assembly, the BJP had secured 122 seats out of the 260 seats it contested from. After the polls, the BJP formed an alliance with Shiv Sena which had 63 MLAs and thus, the BJP could form a majority government to head the state. BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis became the Chief Minister. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, the BJP and Shiv Sena alliance had secured 41 out of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra. The INC had got only 5 seats from the state in total.




In a highly significant move for the BJP, Udayan Raje Bhosale who is the direct descent of Chatrapati Shivaji in the 13th order has joined the party. Udayan Raje’s decision to join the BJP follows after he resigned from his MP post which he secured by winning from an NCP ticket. Also, Udayan Raje’s cousin Shivendra Singh, who won from the Satara seat on behalf of the NCP, had joined the BJP earlier on July 31, 2019. For so long these two cousins had been strong political rivals in the state. Anandrao Patil, the Congress President of the Satara district has also announced that he will join the BJP in Karad during the Chief Minister’s yatra.