Live : Jalna Assembly Election 2019

In 2014 general elections, Raosaheb Danve of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected from Jalna Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 2,06,798 votes. Danve was polled 5,91,428 while Indian National Congress (Congress or INC)'s Vilas K. Autade bagged 3,84,630 votes.

Jalna is a BJP bastion where sitting MP since 1999 and state party President Raosaheb Danve will lock horns with Congress' Vilas K. Autade. 

Besides Danve and Autade, Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi's Sharadchandra Wankhede and Mahendra Kachru Sonavane of the Bahujan Samaj Party, among others, are also in the fray.

The Congress had won the constituency last way back in 1991.

The parliamentary constituency consists of six assembly segments spread across Aurangabad and Jalna districts in the Marathwada region of the state. 

Of these Assembly segments, the BJP has three MLAs Santosh Danve (Bhokardan), Naryan Kuche (Badnapur) and Haribhau Bagade (Phulambri), while the Shiv Sena has two MLAs Sandipanrao Bhumre (Paithan) and Arun Khotkar (Jalna). The Congress has only one MLA Abdul Sattar (Sillod), who recently quit the party.

The constituency has 16,12,054 voters, including 8,66,726 males and 7,45,328 females.

In Lok Sabha elections 2019, 20 candidates are contesting in Jalna segment.

The Jalna Lok Sabha constituency which went to polls on third phase of general elections 2019, witnessed 64.55 per cent voting against 66.15 per cent recorded last time.