1967 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

Maharashtra State Assembly Elections, 1967

1967
All 270 assembly constituencies to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly 136 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party INC Peasants and Workers Party of India CPI Last election 215 seats, 51.22% 15 seats, 7.47% 6 seats, 5.90% Seats won 203 19 10 Seat change 12 4 4 Popular vote 6,288,564 1,043,239 651,077 Percentage 47.03% 7.80 4.87 % Swing 4.19% 0.33% 1.03%
Chief Minister before election Vasantrao Naik INC Elected Chief Minister Vasantrao Naik INC

Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1967 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1967, to elect 270 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Results

Indian National Congress won most number of seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Vasantrao Naik was reelected as Chief Minister

	Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
	Indian National Congress	270	203	6,288,564	47.03%	12
	Peasants and Workers Party of India	58	19	1,043,239	7.80%	4
	Communist Party of India	41	10	651,077	4.87%	4
	Praja Socialist Party	66	8	545,935	4.08%	1
	Republican Party of India	79	5	890,377	6.66%	5
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	166	4	1,092,670	8.17%	4
	Samyukta Socialist Party	48	4	616,466	4.61%	4
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	11	1	145,083	1.08%	1
	Independents	463	16	1,948,223	14.57%	1
	Total	1242	270	13,371,735

List of winning candidates

The following is the list of candidates won:

Constituency Name	Member of Legislative Assembly	Political party	Votes polled
Achalpur	N S Deshmukh	INC
Amgaon	Laxman Mankar	BJS
Chembur	Hashu Advani	BJS
Dhobi Talav	M B Popat	INC
Girgaon	Anant Namjoshi	INC
Nagpur North	P R Wasnik	INC
Nagpur West	Sushila Balraj	INC
Pusad	Vasantrao Naik	INC
Sakoli	S P Kapgate	BJS
Shrivardhan	A R Antulay	INC
Shukrawar Peth	Rambhau Mhalgi	BJS
Walva	Rajaram-bapu Patil	INC

References

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