Elections in Maharashtra
Elections in Maharashtra, a state in India, are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of Maharashtra creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition, the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.
Main political parties
INC: Indian National Congress; INC(I): Indira Congress; Cong(S): Socialist Cong of Sharad Pawar; NCP: Nationalist Congress Party (Main leader: Sharad Saheb Pawar).
MNS [Maharastra NAVNIRMAN SENA]: [Rajsaheb Thackery]
BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party, BJS: Jan Sangh (Precursor of BJP), SS: Shiv Sena.
JP/JD: Janata Party/Dal, BLD: Bharatiya Lok Dal, PWP: Peasants' & Workers' Party.
PSP: Praja Samajwadi Party, SSP: Samyukta Socialist Party, CPI, CPM or CPI (Marxist): Communist Party of India.
SCF: Scheduled Castes Federation, founded by Dr Ambedkar. Later it evolved into (Republican Party of India).
VBA : Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, founded by Prakash Ambedkar.
AIMIM : All India Majlis-e Ittihad al-Muslimin of Asaduddin Owaisi.
Lok Sabha elections
The 1951 and 1957 election are results from Bombay State which has sizable portions of Gujarat in it, but Marathwada and Vidarbha were not included. Maharashtra State was formed on 01 May 1960.
Vidhan Sabha elections
| Parties | Seats won | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962[4] | 1967 | 1972[5] | 1978[6] | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 1999 | 2004 | 2009 | 2014 | 2019 | |||
| Akhil Bharatiya Sena (ABS) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
| Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) | Zero | 4 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | – | – | – | – | 14 | 16 | 42 | 65 | 56 | 54 | 46 | 122 | 105 | ||
| Bharatiya Kranti Dal (BKD) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Communist Party of India (CPI) | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Independents (IND) | 15 | 16 | 23 | 28 | 10 | 20 | 13 | 45 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha (ICS(SCS)) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Indian National Congress (INC) | 215 | 203 | 222 | 69 | 0 | 161 | 141 | 80 | 75 | 69 | 82 | 42 | 44 | ||
| Indian National Congress (Indira) (INC(I)) | – | – | – | 62 | 186 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Indian National Congress (Socialist) (INC(S)) | – | – | – | – | – | 54 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Indian National Congress (Urs) (INC(U)) | – | – | – | – | 47 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Jan Surajya Shakti (JSS) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Janata Dal (JD) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Janata Party (JP) | 99 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Janata Party (Secular) (JP (S)) | – | – | – | – | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Krantikari Shetkari Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Maharashtra Vikas Congress (MVC) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti (NVAS) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 58 | 71 | 62 | 41 | 54 | ||
| Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWPI) | 15 | 19 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Prahar Janshakti Party (PJP) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| Praja Socialist Party (PSP) | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSP) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Republican Left Democratic Front (RLDF) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Republican Party of India (RPI) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Republican Party of India (Athawale) (RPI(A)) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Republican Party of India (Khobragade) (RPI(K)) | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Samajwadi Party (SP) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Shiv Sena (SS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 73 | 69 | 62 | 45 | 63 | 56 | ||||
| Swabhimani Paksha (SP) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Swatantra Bharat Paksh (SBP) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 264 | 270 | 270 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | 288 | ||
| State government formed by | INC | INC | INC | INC | INC | INC | INC | BJP + SS | INC + NCP | INC + NCP | INC + NCP | BJP + SS | INC + NCP + SS | ||
References
- "Lok Sabha Results 1951-52". Election Commission of India.
- "Statistical Report on Lok Sabha Elections 1951-52" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
- "Lok Sabha Results 1962". Election Commission of India.
- "Statistical Report on Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Elections, 1962" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
- "Statistical Report on General Election, 1972 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
- "Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
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