Maharashtra Legislative Assembly


The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from the single-seat constituencies. The members of the upper house, the Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad are indirectly elected through an electoral college.

List of Assemblies

The following is the list of all the Maharashtra Legislative Assemblies:
AssemblyElection YearSpeakerChief MinisterSeats
1st Assembly1960Sayaji SilamYashwantrao Chavan Indian National Congress: had won 1957 poll
2nd Assembly1962Trambak BharadeMarotrao Kannamwar
P. K. Sawant
Vasantrao Naik 		Congress: 215/264; PWP : 15
3rd Assembly1967Trambak BharadeVasantrao Naik Congress: 203/270
4th Assembly1972S. K. Wankhede
Balasaheb Desai		Vasantrao Naik
Shankarrao Chavan
Vasantdada Patil 		Congress: 222; PWP: 7
5th Assembly1978Shivraj Patil
Pranlal Vora		Vasantdada Patil
Sharad Pawar
President's Rule		Janata Party: 99/288; INC: 69; Cong : 62
- Post-poll Cong + Cong Front
6th Assembly1980Sharad DigheAbdul Rehman Antulay
Babasaheb Bhosale
Vasantdada Patil 		Congress: 186/288;
Sharad Congress: 47;
Janata:17; BJP:14
7th Assembly1985Shankarrao JagtapShivajirao Patil Nilangekar
Shankarrao Chavan
Sharad Pawar 		Congress: 161;
Sharad Congress: 54;
Janata:20; BJP:16
8th Assembly1990Madhukarrao ChaudhariSharad Pawar
Sudhakarrao Naik
Sharad Pawar 		Congress: 141/288
Shiva Sena + BJP = 52+42
9th Assembly1995Dattaji NalawadeManohar Joshi
Narayan Rane 		Shiv Sena: 73 + BJP: 65;
INC: 80/288
10th Assembly1999Arunlal GujarathiVilasrao Deshmukh
Sushilkumar Shinde 		Congress: 75
Pawar's NCP: 58
- Post-poll Cong-NCP Front
Sena + BJP: 69+56
11th Assembly2004Babasaheb KupekarVilasrao Deshmukh
Ashok Chavan 		Congress + NCP: 69+71
Sena+BJP = 62+54
12th Assembly2009Dilip Walse-PatilAshok Chavan
Prithviraj Chavan 		Congress + NCP: 82+62
Sena+BJP = 45+46
RPI : 14
MNS : 13
13th Assembly2014Haribhau BagadeDevendra Fadnavis BJP+Allies:122+1
Shiv Sena:63
Congress:42
NCP:41
14th Assembly2019Nana PatoleDevendra Fadnavis
Uddhav Thackeray 		BJP: 105
Shiv Sena:56
Congress:44
NCP:54
Post Poll Sena-NCP-INC Alliance

Sessions

The budget session and the monsoon session are convened in Mumbai whereas the winter session is convened in the auxiliary capital Nagpur. In 1975 because elections were in winter season, the monsoon session was convened in Nagpur and winter session was convened in Mumbai.

Elections

Elections to the Maharashtra Legislative assembly were held in the following years and corresponding Maharashtra Assembly are constituted: