While the Congress Party with 17 candidates, has the highest number of contestants with declared criminal cases against them, the BJP as 10, Aam Aadmi Party 9 (AAP), Maharashtra Gomantak Party 6 (MGP), All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 4 and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) 1.
In the 2017 Assembly polls of the 251 candidates who contested, 38 had declared in the affidavits that they had criminal cases registered against them. According to Bharat Asodekar, the ADR coordinator in Goa, the number of red alert constituencies in Goa is amongst the highest in the country, pushing even Uttar Pradesh and Goa, way below.