The Bharatiya Janata Party’s finest moment in Maharashtra’s electoral politics is also an individual triumph for former chief minister and current deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, who has led his party to a 100+ tally for a third successive election. However, the two-time CM has to wait to see if the top job that eluded him in June 2022, when he was asked to be deputy to Eknath Shinde, will be his despite the dream win that has strengthened his position.

The Mahayuti recorded a landslide victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, with the BJP bettering its own record of the 2014 contest, when the nation was swept up by the Narendra Modi wave. The BJP won 132 seats. Its allies Shiv Sena (Shinde)—which won 57 seats—and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar)—which won 41 seats—also outdid their own expectations.