Live : Ratnagiri Sindhudurg Assembly Election 2019

In 2014 general elections Vinayak Raut of Shiv Sena was elected from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,50,051 votes. Raut was polled 4,93,088 votes while runner-up Indian National Congress (INC or Congress) 's Nilesh Rane bagged 3,43,037 votes.

The stronghold of former Chief Minister Narayan Rane and his family, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg had elected his son Nilesh Rane in 2009, who defeated Sena's Union Minister Suresh Prabhu.

However, the Sena wrested the seat in 2014 when Vinayak Raut won, but in 2017 Rane floated the Maharashtra Swabhiman Party (MSP) and allied with the NDA.

With Sena resisting the MSP, the latter has independently nominated Nilesh Rane who will contest against Congress' Navinchandra Bandivadekar, who was embroiled in a controversy for his alleged links with the right-wing Sanatan Sanstha. 

Shiv Sena has re-nominated its sitting MP for the 2019 general elections.

The constituency has 13,67,361 voters, including 6,65,668 men and 7,01,693 women.

In 2019 general elections, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg recorded 61.69 per cent polling against the previous 65.56 per cent.

Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency, which was formed in 2008 with the delimitation process of parliamentary constituencies, consists of Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Rajapur, Kankavli, Kudal, and Sawantwadi Assembly segments.