The 1980 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held in July 1980. A total of 288 seats were contested.

List of participating political parties

Results

The

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 E ...

won the majority of seats.

Abdul Rehman Antulay Barrister Abdul Rahman Antulay (9 February 1929 – 2 December 2014) was an Indian politician. Antulay was a union minister for Ministry of Minority Affairs (India), Minority Affairs and a Member of Parliament (India), Member of Parliament in th ...

became

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

, Sharad Shankar Dighe became Speaker, and

Sharad Pawar Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minist ...

became leader of the opposition.

Party results

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, , 286, , 186, , 124, , 7,809,533, , 44.50%, , 26.16% , - , , align="left",

Indian National Congress (Urs) The Indian National Congress (U) was a breakaway faction of the Indira Gandhi-led Congress (I), formed in July 1979 by D. Devaraj Urs, the then Chief Minister of Karnataka. Urs' explanation of the split was the return of Indira's son Sanjay G ...

, , 192, , 47, , 22 ''(from

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seats)'', , 3,596,582, , 20.49%, , 4.84% ''(from

vote share)'' , - , , align="left",

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 ...

, , 111, , 17, , 82, , 1,511,042, , 8.61%, , 19.38% , - , , align="left",

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

, , 145, , 14, , 14, , 1,645,734, , 9.38%, , 9.38% ''(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 ...

, , 41, , 9, , 4, , 726,338, , 4.14%, , 1.40% , - , , 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 ...

, , 17, , 2, , 1, , 230,570, , 1.31%, , 0.17% , - , , 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 ...

, , 10, , 2, , 7, , 162,651, , 0.93%, , 0.76% , - , , 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 ...

, , 42, , 1, , 1, , 239,286, , 1.36%, , 0.05% , - , , 36 , 0 , 2 , 132,798 , 0.76% , 0.30% , - , , 1 , 0 , 3 , 5,598 , 0.03% , 0.79% , - , , align="left", Independents, , 612, , 10, , 18, , 1,409,177, , 8.03%, , 6.03% , -style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , align="left", Total, , 1537, , 288, , , , 17,548,655, , 53.30%, , 14.29% , -

List of winning candidates

The following is the list of candidates who won.

References

{{Maharashtra State Assembly election State Assembly elections in Maharashtra 1980s 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 ...