Ranjit Naik-Nimbalkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the incumbent MP here and has been renominated. The other top contenders are Dhairyasheel Mohite-Patil of the Nationalist Congress Party–Sharadchandra Pawar and Ramesh Baraskar of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi
In the same election rally, seated next to Naik Nimbalkar is the sitting Karmala MLA Sanjay Shinde, a close confidante of Ajit Pawar and who was NCP candidate against Naik Nimbalkar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
In the same election rally, seated next to Naik Nimbalkar is the sitting Karmala MLA Sanjay Shinde, a close confidante of Ajit Pawar and who was NCP candidate against Naik Nimbalkar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections