Elections in Maharashtra

Maharashtra (highlighted) within India

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

Political Party	Election Symbol	Political Position	Seats in Legislative Assembly
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		Right-wing	106 / 288
Shiv Sena		Right-wing to far-right	57 / 288
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		Centre	53 / 288
Indian National Congress (INC)		Centre to centre-left	44 / 288
Samajwadi Party (SP)		Centre to left-wing	2 / 288
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)		Ultra-right	1 / 288
Peasants and Workers Party of India		Left-wing	1 / 288
Communist Party of India (CPI)		Left-wing	0 / 288
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen		Ultra-right	2 / 288
Communist Party of India (Marxist)		Left-wing	1 / 288
Republican Party of India		Centre	0 / 288

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 1 May 1960.

As Bombay State

Lok Sabha	Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		4th Party		Others	Total Seats
1st Lok Sabha	1951-52		INC 40		PWPI 1		SCF 1			Independents 3	45
2nd Lok Sabha	1957		INC 38		SCF 5		PSP 5		PWPI 4	CPI 4,BJS 2,MJP 2,PSP 2 ,SMS 2,Independents 2	66

As Maharashtra

Lok Sabha	Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		4th Party		Others	Total Seats
3rd Lok Sabha	1962		INC 41		PSP 1					IND 2	44
4th Lok Sabha	1967		INC 37		CPI 2		SSP 2		PSP 1	IND 2,PWPI 1	45
5th Lok Sabha	1971		INC 42		RPI 1		AIFB 1		PSP 1		48
6th Lok Sabha	1977		INC 20		JP 19		PWPI 5		CPI(M) 3	RPI 1	48
7th Lok Sabha	1980		INC 39		JP 8		INC(U) 1				48
8th Lok Sabha	1984		INC 43		JP 1		PWPI 1		INC(S) 1	IND 2	48
9th Lok Sabha	1989		INC 28		BJP 10		JD 5		SS 1	IND 3, CPI 1	48
10th Lok Sabha	1991		INC 38		BJP 5		SS 4		CPI(M) 1		48
11th Lok Sabha	1996		BJP 18		INC 15		SS 15				48
12th Lok Sabha	1998		INC 33		SS 6		BJP 4		RPI 4	PWPI 1	48
13th Lok Sabha	1999		SS 15		BJP 13		INC 10		NCP 6	PWPI 1,BBM 1, JD(S) 1, IND 1	48
14th Lok Sabha	2004		INC 13		BJP 13		SS 12		NCP 9	RPI(A) 1	48
15th Lok Sabha	2009		INC 17		SS 11		BJP 9		NCP 8	SWP 1, BVA 1, IND 1	48
16th Lok Sabha	2014		BJP 23		SS 18		NCP 4		INC 02	SWP 1	48
17th Lok Sabha	2019		BJP 23		SS 18		NCP 4		INC 1	AIMIM 1,IND 1	48

Vidhan Sabha elections

Summary of MLAs elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

Parties		Seats won
		1962	1967	1972	1978	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
	Peace Party of India (PECP)
	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	3	3
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS)	0	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	186	161	141	80	75	69	82	42	44
	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	BJP + SS

Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		4th Party		5th Party		Others	Total Seats	Chief Minister	CM's Party
1962		INC 215		PWPI 15		PSP 9		CPI 6		RPI 6	SSP 1, IND 15	264	Marotrao Kannamwar	INC
													P. K. Sawant
													Vasantrao Naik
1967		INC 203		PWPI 19		CPI 10		PSP 8		RPI 5	BJS 4, SSP 4, CPI(M) 1, IND 16	270

External links

• Maharashtra Election Results Counting Live
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• Election Commission of India