1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
All 288 seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly; 144 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	53.30% (14.29%)
Chief Minister before election; President's Rule;	Elected Chief Minister ; Abdul Rehman Antulay; Indian National Congress (Indira)

Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1980 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1980, to elect 288 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Results

Indian National Congress (Indira) won majority seats in the Assembly, Abdul Rehman Antulay became Chief Minister. Sharad Shankar Dighe became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Sharad Pawar became Leader of the Opposition.^[2]

e • d
Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes
Indian National Congress (Indira)	286	186	7,809,533	44.50%
Indian National Congress (Urs)	192	47	3,596,582	20.49%
Janata Party (Secular)	111	17	1,511,042	8.61%
Bharatiya Janata Party	145	14	1,645,734	9.38%
Shiv Sena	8	0	726,338	4.14%
Communist Party of India	17	2	230,570	1.31%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	10	2	162,651	0.93%
Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	42	1	239,286	1.36%
Independents	612	10	1,409,177	8.03%
Total	1537	288	17,548,655

The following is the list of candidates won:^[3]

Constituency Name	Member of Legislative Assembly	Political party	Votes polled
Achalpur	Sudan Deshmukh	CPI
Amgaon	Mahadevrao Shivankar	BJP
Baramati	Sharad Pawar	INC(U)	54,919
Borivali	Ram Naik	BJP
Chandgad	V. K. Chavan Patil	INC(I)	38,695
Chembur	Hashu Advani	BJP
Dadar	Sharayu Thakur	Congress(I)
Edlabad	Pratibha Patil	Congress(I)
Kalyan	Ram Kapse	BJP	39066
Kasba Peth	Arvind Lele	BJP	28,851
Khamgaon	Pandurang Phundkar	BJP
Khetwadi	Premkumar Shankardatt Sharma	BJP
Kurla	Datta Samant	Independent
Mahim	Fred Pinto	Janata Party
Malkapur	Kisanlal Sancheti	BJP
Matunga	V Subramanyam	Congress(I)
Mumbadevi	Nanubhai S. Patel (K. S. Patel)	BJP	15643
Nagpur East	Satish Chaturvedi	Congress(I)
Nagpur West	Gev Avari	Congress(I)
Nagpur North	Suryakant Dongare	RPI (Khobragade)
Nagpur South	Banwarilal Purohit	Congress(I)
Nagpur Central	Mohd. Yakub Kamar Khan	Congress(I)
Nehrunagar	Babasaheb Bhosale	Congress(I)
Opera House	Jaywantiben Mehta	BJP
Ratnagiri	Kusum Abhyankar	BJP
Renapur	Gopinath Munde	BJP
Sangameshwar	Jagannathrao Jadhav	JNP(JP)
Sangli	Shalinitai Patil	Congress(I)
Satara	Abhaysinh Raje Bhosle	Congress(I)
Sawantwadi	Shivram Sawant Bhonsale	Congress (I)	21,156 votes
Shahada	Annasaheb P. K. Patil	JNP(JP)	32,102
Shivajinagar	Anna Joshi	BJP
Shrivardhan	Ravindra Raut (Later, Antulay in bypoll)	Congress (Indira)
Ulhasnagar	Sitaldas Khubchand Harchndani	BJP
Vile Parle	Pranlal Vora	Janata Party

↑ "Key Highlights of General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)Key Highlights of General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India ([1])
↑ "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), National Informatics Centre". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), National Informatics Centre ([2])
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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