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: Indira Congress; Cong: Socialist Cong of Sharad Pawar; NCP: Nationalist Congress Party.

BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party, BJS: Jan Sangh, 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 : Communist Party of India.

SCF: Scheduled Castes Federation, founded by Dr Ambedkar. Later it evolved into.

MNS : Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, founded by Raj Thackeray.

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