Beed, one of Marathwada's eight seats, is witnessing a straight fight between BJP's Pankaja Munde and NCP(SP)'s Bajrang Sonwane, which may be determined by the Maratha quota issue.
Hemant Patil of Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena is the incumbent MP here, but the party and its Mahayuti alliance have given the ticket this time to Baburao Kadam Kohalikar. The other top contenders are Nagesh Ashtikar of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance and Dr BD Chavan of Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi