Maharashtra Party wise Seat and Candidate Analysis 2009 and 2014

Maharashtra

The Indian National Congress& the Nationalist Congress Party alliance, the Democratic Front or the Aghadi scored a decisive victory over the Mahayuti alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. The Democratic front alliance secured 144 seats out of the possible 288. The Mahayutiended with a dismal 90 seats. The main reason for the dismal performance of the Mahayuti alliance was the spoilsport played by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of Raj Thackeray. They split the Marathi votebank, a traditional stronghold of the Shivsena

SN	Party	Seats Contested	No. of elected	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	170	82	21.01
2	Nationalist Congress Party	113	62	16.37
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	119	46	14.02
4	Shiv Sena	160	44	16.26
5	Independent	18.2	24	15.5
6	Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	143	13	5.71
7	Peasants And Workers Party of India	17	4	1.11
8	Samajwadi Party	31	4	0.74
9	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi	4	2	0.46
9	Jan Surajya Shakti	37	2	1.27
10	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	20	1	0.6
10	Rashtriya Samaj Paksha	26	1	0.41
10	Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh	103	2	0.83
10	Loksangram	2	1	0.13
10	Swabhimani Paksha	14	1	0.78
11	Bahujan Samaj Party	281	0	2.35
	Total:	1258	288