The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017.

VVPAT Voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) or verified paper record (VPR) is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system. A VVPAT is intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allo ...

-fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT.

Background

The term of the Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017. The last election had resulted in a 21-seat majority to the

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

led by Manohar Parrikar. Parrikar was elected Chief Minister. In 2014, he had to resign due to being nominated as Minister of Defence. Laxmikant Parsekar took oath as Chief Minister as Parrikar's successor.

Opinion polls

Turnout

Results

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(BJP) , 2,97,588 , , 32.5 , , 2.2 , 13 , , 8 , - , , 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 E ...

(INC) , 2,59,758 , , 28.4 , , 2.4 , 17 , , 8 , - , , align="left", Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG) , 1,03,290 , , 11.3 , , 4.6 , 3 , , , - , , align="left", Independents (IND) , 1,01,922 , , 11.1 , , 5.5 , 3 , , 2 , - , , align="left", Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) , 57,420 , , 6.3 , , 6.3 , 0 , , , - , bgcolor="#353982", , align="left",

Goa Forward Party Goa Forward Party ( GFP) is a regional political party in the western coastal Indian state of Goa, led by Vijai Sardesai. The GFP fielded four candidates in the 2017 Goa Assembly election and won three seats. It played a crucial, if controver ...

(GFP) , 31,900 , , 3.5 , , 3.5 , 3 , , 3 , - , , align="left",

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party i ...

(NCP) , 20,916 , , 2.3 , , 1.8 , 1 , , 1 , - , bgcolor="grey", , align="left", Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) , 10,745 , , 1.2 , , 1.2 , 0 , , , - , bgcolor="yellow", , align="left",

United Goans Party The United Goans Party is a political party in state of Goa. It was formed in 1963 in the former union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, with Jack de Sequeira as its party leader, when multiple regional parties merged during the Konkani langua ...

(UGP) , 8,563, , 0.9 , , 0.9 , 0 , , , - , bgcolor="orange", , align="left",

Goa Vikas Party The Goa Vikas Party (GVP) is a regional political party from Goa, India, was led by Francisco Pacheco. The GVP was founded by late Sitaram Bandodkar, and the current president is Francisco Pacheco's partner Viola Pacheco. It was revived by Pache ...

(GVP) , 5,379 , , 0.6 , , 2.9 , 0 , , 2 , - , bgcolor="black", , align="left", Others , 7,816 , , 0.9 , , 2.9 , 0 , , , - , bgcolor=white, , align="left",

None of the Above "None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting syste ...

(NOTA) , 10,919 , , 1.2 , , 1.2 , colspan="2" , - , colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9", , - style="font-weight:bold;" , align="left" colspan="2", Total , 9,16,216 , , 100.00 , , bgcolor="#E9E9E9", , 40 , , ±0 , - ! colspan="9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Valid votes , align="right" , 9,16,216 , align="right" , 99.85 , colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Invalid votes , align="right" , 1,416 , align="right" , 0.15 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Votes cast / turnout , align="right" , 9,17,832 , align="right" , 82.56 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Abstentions , align="right" , 1,93,860 , align="right" , 17.44 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Registered voters , align="right" , 11,11,692 , colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", , -

Results by Constituency

The following is the list of winning MLAs in the election.

By-elections

References

External links

Goa Election Commission
{{Goan elections State Assembly elections in Goa 2010s in Goa 2017 State Assembly elections in India