1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

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Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in March 1985, to elect 288 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Results[edit]

Indian National Congress won majority seats in the Assembly, Vasantdada Patil became Chief Minister. Shankarrao Chimaji Jagatap 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	Seat change
Indian National Congress	287	161	9,522,556	43.41%	25
Indian National Congress (Socialist)	126	54	3,790,850	17.28%	54
Janata Party	61	20	1,618,101	7.38%	20
Bharatiya Janata Party	67	16	1,590,351	7.25%	2
Peasants and Workers Party of India	29	13	825,949	3.77%	4
Communist Party of India	31	2	202,790	0.92%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	14	2	174,350	0.79%
Independents	1506	20	3,836,390	17.49%	10
Total	2230	288	21,934,742

Region-wise Results[edit]

Region	Total seats	Indian National Congress	Indian National Congress (S)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Janata Party	Others
Western Maharashtra	70	22	31	5	1	1
Vidarbha	62	51	4	7
Marathwada	46	33	10	2
Thane+Konkan	39	18	2	1
Mumbai	36	15	1	1
North Maharashtra	35	22	6	3
Total^[3]	288	161	54	20	16

List of winning candidates[edit]

The following is the list of candidates won:

Constituency Name	Member of Legislative Assembly	Political party	Votes polled
Achalpur	Sudan Deshmukh	CPI / Independent
Amgaon	Mahadevrao Shivankar	BJP
Aurangabad East	Haribhau Bagade	BJP
Baramati	Sharad Pawar	INC(Socialist)	53,545
Borivali	Ram Naik	BJP
Chandwad	Jayachand Kasliwal	BJP
Chembur	Parvati Parihar	Congress
Dadar	Sharayu Thakur	Congress(I)
Devalali	Bhikchand Haribhau Donde	BJP
Devgad	Appa Gogte	BJP
Edlabad	Jaware Haribhau	ICS (Socialist Congress)
Goregaon (Bhandara)	Khushal Bopche	BJP
Goregaon (Mumbai)	Mrinal Gore	Janata Party
Guhagar	Shridhar Natu	BJP
Kalyan	Ram Kapse	BJP
Kasba Peth	Ulhas Kalokhe	Congress	35,588
Khamgaon	Manikrao Gawande	Congress
Khetwadi	Premkumar Shankardatt Sharma	BJP
Lakhandur	Namdeorao Diwate	BJP
Mahim	Sham Shetty	Congress
Malkapur	Vasantrao Shinde	Congress
Matunga	V Subramanyam	Congress(I)
Mumbadevi	Lalit Kapadia	Congress
Nagpur East	Avinash Pande	Congress(I)
Nagpur West	Gev Avari	Congress(I)
Nagpur North	Damuantibai Deshbhratar	Congress
Nagpur South	Ashok Dhawad	Congress(I)
Nagpur Central	Shoukat Rehman Qureshi	Congress(I)
Nashik	Daulatrao Aher	BJP
Nehrunagar	Babasaheb Bhosale	Congress(I)
Opera House	Chandrashekhar Prabhu	Congress
Ratnagiri	Shivajirao Jadyar	Congress
Raver	Gunawant Sarode	BJP
Sakri	Govindrao Chaudhary	BJP
Sangli	Vasantdada Patil	Congress(I)
Satara	Abhaysinh Raje Bhosle	Congress(I)
Shivajinagar	Anna Joshi	BJP
Ulhasnagar	Sitaldas Khubchand Harchandani	BJP
Vaijapur	Ramkrishna Baba Patil	Congress
Vile Parle	Hans Bhugra	Congress

References[edit]

↑ "Key Highlights of General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
↑ "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai" (PDF). www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. National Informatics Centre.
↑ "Spoils of five-point duel". Retrieved 26 September 2017.

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[pdf-1] "Key Highlights of General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra" (PDF). Election Commission of India.

[2] "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai" (PDF). www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. National Informatics Centre.

[3] "Spoils of five-point duel". Retrieved 26 September 2017.

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