| Native Name: | भारतीय जनता पार्टी, महाराष्ट्र |
| Party Logo: | File:Bharatiya Janata Party logo.svg |
| Abbreviation: | BJP |
| President: | Chandrashekhar Bawankule |
| Headquarters: | Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Colours: | Saffron |
| State Seats Name: | Maharashtra Legislative Assembly |
| State2 Seats Name: | Maharashtra Legislative Council |
| Symbol: | Lotus |
| Leader: | Devendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister) |
| Flag: | BJP flag.svg |
| Eci: | National Party |
Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra (or BJP Maharashtra) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Maharashtra The headquarters is located in Mumbai.
The BJP came into being after a split from the Janata party. The prominent members of BJP had been the part of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Jana Sangh was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was dissolved in 1977. On 12 August 2022, Chandrashekhar Bawankule was appointed by the party leadership as the president of the BJP Maharashtra.
The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology. It has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As of September 2019, it is the maharashtra's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra State as well as state legislatures.
| Year | Seats won | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | 11 | ||
| 1991 | 6 | ||
| 1996 | 2 | ||
| 1998 | 15 | ||
| 1999 | 10 | ||
| 2004 | |||
| 2009 | 4 | ||
| 2014 | 14 | ||
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 | 14 |
| Year | Seats won | Seats contested | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 145 | 14 | 9.38% | – | Opposition | |
| 1985 | 67 | 2 | 7.25% | 2.13% | ||
| 1990 | 104 | 26 | 10.71% | 3.46% | ||
| 1995 | 116 | 23 | 12.80% | 2.09% | Government | |
| 1999 | 117 | 9 | 14.54% | 1.74% | Opposition | |
| 2004 | 111 | 2 | 13.67% | 0.87% | ||
| 2009 | 119 | 8 | 14.02% | 0.35% | ||
| 2014 | 260 | 76 | 27.81% | 13.79% | Government | |
| 2019 | 150 | 17 | 25.75% | 2.06% | ||
| 2024 | 149 | 27 | 26.77% | 1.02% |
| Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Assembly | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 31 October 2014 | 12 November 2019 | 13th | ||
| 23 November 2019 | 28 November 2019 | 14th | |||||
| 5 December 2024 | Incumbent | 15th | |||||
| Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gopinath Munde | Renapur | 14 March 1995 | 18 October 1999 | Manohar Joshi Narayan Rane | |||
| 2 | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 30 June 2022 | 26 November 2024 | Eknath Shinde | |||
| Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gopinath Munde | Renapur | 12 December 1991 | 14 March 1995 | Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar | |||
| 2 | Eknath Khadse | Muktainagar | 11 November 2009 | 31 October 2014 | Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan | |||
| 3 | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 1 December 2019 | 29 June 2022 | Uddhav Thackeray | |||
| Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Dange | MLA's | 2 July 1992 | 30 July 1993 | Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar | |||
| 30 July 1994 | 14 March 1995 | (1 year, 255 days) | Sharad Pawar | |||||
| 2 | Nitin Gadkari | Nagpur Graduates | 23 October 1999 | 11 April 2005 | Vilasrao Deshmukh Sushilkumar Shinde Vilasrao Deshmukh | |||
| 3 | Pandurang Fundkar | MLA's | 11 April 2005 | 22 December 2011 | Vilasrao Deshmukh Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan | |||
| 4 | Vinod Tawde | MLA's | 23 December 2011 | 20 October 2014 | Prithviraj Chavan | |||
| 5 | Pravin Darekar | MLA's | 16 December 2019 | 29 June 2022 | Uddhav Thackeray | |||
| Portrait | Name | Term of Office | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttamrao Patil | 1980 | 1986 | 6 years | ||
| 2 | Gopinath Munde | 1986 | 1991 | 5 years | ||
| 3 | N. S. Pharande | 1991 | 1994 | 3 years | ||
| 4 | Suryabhan Vahadane-Patil | 1994 | 2000 | 6 years | ||
| 5[1] | Pandurang Fundkar | 2000 | 2005 | 5 years | ||
| 6 | Nitin Gadkari | 2005 | 2009 | 4 years | ||
| 7[2] | Sudhir Mungantiwar | 03-Apr-2010 | 11-Apr-2013 | |||
| 8[3] | Devendra Fadnavis | 11-Apr-2013 | 06-Jan-2015 | |||
| 9[4] | Raosaheb Danve | 06-Jan-2015 | 16-Jul-2019 | |||
| 10[5] | Chandrakant Patil | 16-Jul-2019 | 12-Aug-2022 | |||
| 11[6] | Chandrashekhar Bawankule | 12-Aug-2022 | present | |||