The 1962 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held for the second term of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. A total of 264 seats were contested. The
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
won 215 of the 264 seats.
List of participating political parties
Results
Party results
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vote %
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Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
, 264
, 215
, 80
, 5,617,347
, 51.22%
, 2.56%
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,
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Peasants and Workers Party of India
The Peasants and Workers Party of India is a Marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded on 13.06.1948, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 1,00,000 members. The influence of the party is lar ...
, 79
, 15
, 16
, 818,801
, 7.47%
, 0.81%
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,
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Praja Socialist Party
The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the Kisan Mazdoo ...
, 101
, 9
, 24
, 792,755
, 7.23%
, 1.74%
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,
, align="left",
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925.
H ...
, 56
, 6
, 7
, 647,390
, 5.90%
, 2.27%
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Republican Party of India
The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Polit ...
, 66
, 3
, 10 (from
SCF seats)
, 589,653
, 5.38%
, 0.85% (from
SCF vote share)
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Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
, 14
, 1
, 1
, 54,764
, 0.50%
, 0.50% ''(New Party)''
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Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh
, 127
, 0
, 4
, 548,097
, 5.00%
, 3.44%
, -
,
, 9
, 0
, ''(New Party)''
, 48,484
, 0.44%
, 0.44% ''(New Party)''
, -
,
, 5
, 0
, 1
, 12,109
, 0.11%
, 0.32%
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,
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Independents
, 437
, 15
, 19
, 1,836,095
, 16.74%
, 7.03%
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, align="left", Total, , 1161, , 264, , , , 10,966,279, , 60.36%, , 7.20%
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Elected members
References
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1962
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1960s in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...