Maharashtra: Parliamentary elections

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Maharashtra 2014

 

S.No.	Costituency	Name Of Member	Party
1	Ahmednagar	Gandhi Dilipkumar Mansukhlal	BJP
2	Akola	Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao	BJP
3	Amravati	Adsul Anandrao Vithoba	SS
4	Aurangabad	Chandrakant Bhaurao Khaire	SS
5	Baramati	Supriya Sule	NCP
6	Beed	Munde Gopinathrao Pandurang	BJP
7	Bhandara-Gondiya	Nanabhau Falgunrao Patole	BJP
8	Bhiwandi	Kapil Moreshwar Patil	BJP
9	Buldhana	Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao	SS
10	Chandrapur	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram	BJP
11	Dhule	Dr. Bhamre Subhash Ramrao	BJP
12	Dindori	Chavan Harishchandra Deoram	BJP
13	Gadchiroli-Chimur	Ashok Mahadeorao Nete	BJP
14	Hatkanangle	Raju Shetty	SWP
15	Hingoli	Rajeev Shankarrao Satav	INC
16	Jalgaon	A.T. Nana Patil	BJP
17	Jalna	Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	BJP
18	Kalyan	Dr.Shrikant Eknath Shinde	SS
19	Kolhapur	Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik	NCP
20	Latur	Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad	BJP
21	Madha	Mohite Patil Vijaysinh Shankarrao	NCP
22	Maval	Appa Alias Shrirang Chandu Barne	SS
23	Mumbai-North	Gopal Chinayya Shetty	BJP
24	Mumbai-North-Central	Poonam Mahajan Alias Poonam Vajendla Rao	BJP
25	Mumbai-North-East	Kirit Somaiya	BJP
26	Mumbai-North-West	Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar	SS
27	Mumbai-South	Arvind Sawant	SS
28	Mumbai-South-Central	Rahul Ramesh Shewale	SS
29	Nagpur	Gadkari Nitin Jairam	BJP
30	Nanded	Ashok Shankarrao Chavan	INC
31	Nandurbar	Dr.Gavit Heena Vaijaykumar	BJP
32	Nashik	Godse Hemant Tukaram	SS
33	Osmanabad	Gaikwad Ravindra Vishwanath	SS
34	Palghar	Adv. Chintaman Navasha Wanga	BJP
35	Parbhani	Jadhav Sanjay (Bandu) Haribhau	SS
36	Pune	Anil Shirole	BJP
37	Raigad	Anant Geete	SS
38	Ramtek	Krupal Balaji Tumane	SS
39	Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg	Vinayak Bhaurao Raut	SS
40	Raver	Khadase Raksha Nikhil	BJP
41	Sangli	Sanjaykaka Patil	BJP
42	Satara	Shrimant Chh. Udayanraje Pratapsinha Bhonsale	NCP
43	Shirdi	Lokhande Sadashiv Kisan	SS
44	Shirur	Adhalrao Shiva ji Dattatrey	SS
45	Solapur	Sharad Bansode	BJP
46	Thane	Vichare Rajan Baburao	SS
47	Wardha	Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas	BJP
48	Yavatmal-Washim	Gawali Bhavana Pundlikrao	SS

 

 

2009, 2014

Maha shock for Cong-NCP as it loses 42 of 48 seats

Prafulla Marpakwar

Mumbai: TNN

The Times of India May 17 2014

Maharashtra 2014

Adarsh-Tainted Chavan Among Congres’s Only 2 Winners

The BJP-Shiv Sena combine trounced the ruling Congres-NCP in Maharashtra, conceding only two seats to the Congres and four to Sharad Pawar’s NCP out of a total of 48 in the state.

The score was 6-0 in Mumbai, which had been swept by Congres-NCP in 2009.

The results sparked concerns in the Congres-NCP camp about the assembly polls due in October, with the BJP-Shiv Sena can expect to enjoy a huge advantage.

The Shiv Sena won 18 out of 22 seats it contested, while the BJP secured 23 out of the 26 it fought. The two Congresmen who won were Ashok Chavan (Nanded), who had to quit as CM after the Adarsh scam came to light, and Youth Congres president Rajeev Satao from Hingoli. People from all four regions of the state — Vidarbha, Marathwada, Kon

kan and northern Maharashtra — voted against the Congres-NCP.

Congres-NCP leaders blamed the UPA-2’s ‘anti-people decisions’ for the defeat.

They said corruption, failure to check inflation, bad governance and delay at the state level in taking even routine decisions were responsible for the rout.

The failure of the Raj Thackeray-led MNS to split votes like it had in 2009 was also seen as a reason for the Congres-NCP’s poor performance. Congres leaders felt the combine also ignored youngsters.

A Congres minister said the state government also did not take adequate steps to deal with the acute shortage of power and ignored anti-graft protests across the state. An NCP minister said the builders’ lobby worked against the secular forces.

The BJP wave swept away heavyweights like Union ministers Sushilkumar Shinde and Praful Patel, and state PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal. AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik and social welfare minister Shiva-jirao Moghe were also defeated.

2019

BJP-Shiv Sena win

May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Constituencies won by the main political parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019 in Maharashtra
From: May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Despite an acute farm crisis, the massive Maratha quota stir and Dalit-Maratha tensions, Maharashtra’s voters stood steadfastly by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine, giving it 41 of the 48 seats in the state and playing a key role in the return of the Modi government. Congress came up with its worst performance ever in the region of its birth, winning just one seat, and NCP just about held on to its previous 4-seat tally, while AIMIM made its successful LS debut from the state by winning the Aurangabad seat.

The saffron allies together and individually won the same number of seats they had in 2014, BJP bagging 23 and Sena 18 (one more seat in 2014 was won by a smaller ally, farm leader Raju Shetti). Ditto with NCP, which had the poor consolation that an independent backed by it too captured one constituency (Amravati).

But Congress had nothing to feel good about. It had won 2 seats last time, and this time’s sole winner (from Chandrapur) is an ex-Sena legislator Suresh Dhanorkar, who joined the party just before the polls.

The BJP-Sena combine made a clean sweep in Mumbai, winning all 6 seats. The rout across the state raises serious questions for Congress and Sharad Pawar’s NCP while brightening the BJP-Sena’s prospects for the October assembly elections and strengthening CM Devendra Fadnavis’s claim over the top post.

Among the veterans trounced were ex-CM and state Congress chief Ashok Chavan from Nanded, a family stronghold, and ex-Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde from hometown Solapur. Two Union ministers — Hansraj Ahir (BJP) and Anant Geete (Sena) — too were defeated, as were Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew Parth and actor Urmila Matondkar (Congress).

Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, food and civil supplies minister Girish Bapat and Congress-NCP “turncoat” Sujay Vikhe Patil were elected from Nagpur, Pune and Ahmednagar, respectively, while the victory of MIM’s Imtiaz Jaleel against four-term Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire came as a surprise.

Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar, who had formed the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi with MIM, lost both seats he was contesting from — Solapur and Akola. However, Ashok Chavan alleged that VBA had damaged Congress prospects in 11 seats.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s high-profile and highdecibel campaign against PM Modi and the BJP too failed miserably, with hardly any Congress-NCP candidates benefiting, including in Mumbai.

BJP and Sena made serious inroads in western Maharashtra, winning 5 and 4 seats, respectively, of the total 12 there. The other three went to NCP whose dominance of the sugar belt, already shaken in 2014, looks even weaker now.

Uddhav Thackeray’s lastminute decision to make amends with BJP and join hands with the Modi-Shah combine has benefited Sena in a big way. And Fadnavis, in particular, has emerged much stronger. The rapprochement with Uddhav, the Rs 34,000 crore loan waiver scheme, the Jalyukt Shivar irrigation scheme and the move to bring in reservation for Marathas in jobs and education and at the same time pacify the Dalit community over key issues all worked for Fadnavis.

2019: Mumbai

May 24, 2019: The Times of India

The results of the 2019 parliamentary elections in Mumbai
From: May 24, 2019: The Times of India

BJP-Sena deliver knock-out punch to Cong-NCP combine

AS BJP-LED NDA SWATS ASIDE ANY KIND OF OPPOSITION ACROSS INDIA, TWO METROPOLISES HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY

Saffron friends BJP and Shiv Sena once again knocked “secular” allies Congress and NCP out of the Lok Sabha ring in the city.

All six seats within the city limits were returned to the saffron alliance. It was a clean and clear mandate as, unlike quite a few constituencies in the state, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi of Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi cannot be said to have contributed to the Congress-NCP losses here.

Though it was a general election, the numerous infrastructure projects undertaken by the state government, from metro projects and the coastal road to the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link and superhighways, contributed to BJP’s positive image.

Even businessman Mukesh Ambani’s endorsement of Congress candidate Milind Deora failed to work. Despite demonetisation and opposition to GST by the sizeable trader community in the financial capital, the city wholeheartedly backed Narendra Modi.

BJP’s emphasis on housing for all also worked in its favour. Its alliance with Shiv Sena kept the Hindu vote intact. If the vast grassroot network of Shiv Sena in the city aided BJP, it also cannot be denied that Shiv Sena candidates owed their victory to Modi’s pull among North Indians and Gujaratis.