The 1978 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held in March 1978 for the fifth term of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. A total of 288 seats were contested.Key Highlights of General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra,

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Congress factions (u) and (i) formed the government.

List of participating political parties

Results

Party results

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Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

, , 215, , 99, , 99, , 5,701,399, , 27.99%, , 27.99% ''(New Party)'' , - , , align="left",

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 ...

, , 259, , 69, , 153, , 5,159,828, , 25.33%, , 31.03% , - , , align="left",

Indian National Congress (Indira) 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 ...

, , 203, , 62, , 62, , 3,735,308, , 18.34%, , 18.34% ''(New Party)'' , - , , align="left",

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 ...

, , 88, , 13, , 6, , 1,129,172, , 5.54%, , 0.12% , - , , align="left",

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

, , 12, , 9, , 8, , 345,008, , 1.69%, , 0.92% , - , , align="left",

All India Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party a ...

, , 6, , 3, , 1, , 166,497, , 0.82%, , 1.58% , - , , align="left",

Republican Party of India (Khobragade) The Republican Party of India (Khobragade) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and named for its leader, B. D. Khobragade. The National President is now Sunil Harishchandra Ramteke. RPI(K) has now u ...

, , 23, , 2, , 2, , 287,533, , 1.41%, , 1.41% ''(New Party)'' , - , , align="left",

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 ...

, , 25, , 2, , , , 215,487, , 1.06%, , 2.71% , - , , 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 ...

, , 48, , 1, , 1, , 301,056, , 1.48%, , 1.25% , - , , 35 , 0 , 1 , 369,749 , 1.82% , 0.02% , - , , 5 , 0 , , 88,654 , 0.44% , 0.26% , - , , align="left", Independents, , 894, , 28, , 5, , 2,864,023, , 14.06%, , 1.38% , -style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , align="left", Total, , 1819, , 288, , 18, , 20,367,221, , 67.59%, , 6.94% , -

Elected members

References

{{Maharashtra State Assembly election State Assembly elections in Maharashtra 1970s 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 ...