Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

*Mahārāṣhṭra Vidhānasabhā*
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ; Mahārāṣhṭra Vidhānasabhā
15th Maharashtra Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house of the Maharashtra Legislature
Term limits	5 years
Leadership
Governor of Maharashtra	Jishnu Dev Varma ; since 06 March 2026
Speaker of the House	Rahul Narwekar, BJP ; since 3 July 2022
Deputy Speaker of the House	Anna Bansode, NCP ; since 25 March 2025
Chief Minister ; (Leader of the House)	Devendra Fadnavis, BJP ; since 05 December 2024
Deputy Chief Minister ; (Deputy Leader of the House)	Eknath Shinde, SHS Sunetra Ajit Pawar, NCP 31 January 2026 ; since 05 December 2024
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs	Chandrakant Patil, BJP ; since 21 December 2024
Leader of the Opposition	Vacant ; since 23 November 2024
General Secretary	Rajendra Bhagwat, IAS
Structure
Seats	288
Political groups	Government (235); MY (235) BJP (131); SHS (57); NCP (40); JSS (2); RSPS (1); RSVA (1); RYSP (1); IND (2); Official Opposition Vacant Other Opposition (51); MVA (48) SS(UBT) (20); INC (16); NCP(SP) (10); CPI(M) (1); PWPI (1); Others (3) SP (2); AIMIM (1); Vacant (2) Vacant (2);
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	20 November 2024
Next election	2029
Meeting place
	Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai
	Vidhan Bhavan, Nagpur (Winter session) Maharashtra Legislature
Website
	Government of Maharashtra; Maharashtra Legislature

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra Vidhānasabhā) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies.^[2] The Assembly meets at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, though the winter session is held in Nagpur.^[3] Along with the Maharashtra Legislative Council, it constitutes the legislature of Maharashtra. The presiding officer of the Assembly is the Speaker. Members of the Assembly are directly elected by the people of Maharashtra through elections held every five years, unless the Assembly is dissolved earlier.^[4] The current Assembly was elected in November 2024.^[5]

List of assemblies[edit | edit source]

The following is the list of all the Maharashtra Legislative Assemblies (1961–present):^[6]

Assembly	Year	Speaker	Chief Minister	Seats
1st	1960	S. L. Silam (INC)	Yashwantrao Chavan (INC)	*INC had won the 1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly Elections. INC: 135; IND: 34; PSP: 33; PWP: 31; CPI: 13; SCF: 13; BJS: 4; HMS: 1; Total: 264 (of 396 Maharashtra + Gujarat Seats).
2nd	1962	Balasaheb Bharde (INC)	Yashwantrao Chavan (INC) Marotrao Kannamwar (INC) P. K. Sawant (INC) Vasantrao Naik (INC)	INC: 215; PWP: 15; IND: 15; PSP: 9; CPI: 6; RPI: 3; Socialist: 1; Total: 264.
3rd	1967	Balasaheb Bharde (INC)	Vasantrao Naik (INC)	INC: 203; PWP: 19; IND: 16; CPI: 10; PSP: 8; RPI: 5; SSP: 4; BJS: 4; CPM: 1; Total: 270.
4th	1972	S. K. Wankhede (INC) Balasaheb Desai (INC)	Vasantrao Naik (INC) Shankarrao Chavan (INC) Vasantdada Patil (INC)	INC: 222; IND: 23; PWP: 7; BJS: 5; Socialist: 3; CPI: 2; AIFB: 2; RPI: 2; CPM: 1; IUML: 1; BKD: 1; SHS: 1. Total: 270.
5th	1978	Shivraj Patil (INC) Pranlal Vora (INC)	Vasantdada Patil (INC(U)) Sharad Pawar (IC(S))	JP: 99; INC: 69; INC(I): 62; IND: 28; PWP: 13; CPM: 9; AIFB: 3; RPI: 2; RPI(K): 2; CPI: 1; Total: 288. Post-poll INC + INC(I) Front.
6th	1980	Sharad Dighe (INC)	A. R. Antulay (INC) Babasaheb Bhosale (INC) Vasantdada Patil (INC)	INC(I): 186; INC(U): 47; JP: 17; BJP: 14; IND: 10; PWP: 9; CPM: 2; CPI: 2; RPI(K): 1; Total: 288.
7th	1985	Shankarrao Jagtap (INC)	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar (INC) Shankarrao Chavan (INC) Sharad Pawar (INC)	INC: 161; ICS: 54; JP: 20; IND: 20; BJP: 16; PWP: 13; CPM: 2; CPI: 2; Total: 288.
8th	1990	Madhukarrao Chaudhari (INC)	Sharad Pawar (INC) Sudhakarrao Naik (INC) Sharad Pawar (INC)	INC: 141; SHS: 52; BJP: 42; JD: 24; IND: 13; PWP: 8; CPM: 3; CPI: 2; RPI(K): 1; IUML: 1; ICS(SCS): 1; Total: 288.
9th	1995	Dattaji Nalawade (SHS)	Manohar Joshi (SHS) Narayan Rane (SHS)	INC: 80; SHS: 73; BJP: 65; IND: 45; JD: 11; PWP: 6; CPM: 3; SP: 3; Maharashtra Vikas Congress: 1; NVAS: 1; Total: 288.
10th	1999	Arun Gujarathi (NCP)	Vilasrao Deshmukh (INC) Sushilkumar Shinde (INC)	INC: 75; SHS: 69; NCP: 58; BJP: 56; IND: 12; PWP: 5; BBM: 3; CPM: 2; JD(S): 1;SP: 2; RPI: 1; GGP: 1; Native People's Party: 1; SJP (Maharashtra): 1; Total: 288. Post-poll INC + NCP Front.
11th	2004	Babasaheb Kupekar (NCP)	Vilasrao Deshmukh (INC) Ashok Chavan (INC)	NCP: 71; INC: 69; SHS: 62; BJP: 54; IND: 19; Jan Surajya Shakti: 4; CPM: 3; PWP: 2; BBM: 1; RPI(A): 1; ABHS: 1; STBP: 1; Total: 288.
12th	2009	Dilip Walse-Patil (NCP)	Ashok Chavan (INC) Prithviraj Chavan (INC)	INC: 82; NCP: 62; BJP: 46; SHS: 44; IND: 24; MNS: 13; PWP: 4; SP: 4; JSS: 2; BVA: 2; CPM: 1; BBM: 1; SWP: 1; RSPS: 1; Loksangram: 1; Total: 288.
13th	2014	Haribhau Bagade (BJP)	Devendra Fadnavis (BJP)	BJP: 122; SHS: 63; INC: 42; NCP: 41; IND: 7; PWP: 3; BVA: 3; AIMIM: 2; CPM: 1; MNS: 1; SP: 1; BBM: 1; RSPS: 1; Total: 288.
14th	2019	Nana Patole (INC) Rahul Narwekar (BJP)	Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) Uddhav Thackeray (SHS) Eknath Shinde (SHS)	BJP: 106; SHS: 56; NCP: 53; INC: 44; IND: 13; BVA: 3; AIMIM: 2; SP: 2; PHJSP: 2; CPM: 1; PWP: 1; MNS: 1; JSS: 1; SWP: 1; RSPS: 1; KSP: 1; Total: 288. Post Poll Shiv Sena + BJP Alliance ^[7]
15th	2024	Rahul Narwekar (BJP)	Devendra Fadnavis (BJP)	BJP: 132; SHS: 57; NCP: 41; SS (UBT): 20; INC: 16; NCP (SP): 10; IND: 2; JSS: 2; SP: 2; AIMIM: 1; RYSP: 1; CPM: 1; PWP: 1; RSVA: 1; RSPS:1; Total: 288. Maha Yuti Alliance

Office bearers[edit | edit source]

Title	Portrait	Name	Since
Governor	File:Acharya Dev Vrat, Governor of Gujarat in 2022 (cropped).jpg	Jishnu Dev Varma	10 March 2026
Speaker	File:Rahul Narwekar.jpeg	Rahul Narwekar	9 December 2024
Deputy Speaker		Anna Bansode	25 March 2025
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)		Devendra Fadnavis	5 December 2024
Deputy Chief Minister		Eknath Shinde	5 December 2024
Leader of Opposition		vacant

Sessions[edit | edit source]

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 (second) session was convened in Nagpur and winter (third) session was convened in Mumbai.^{[citation needed]}

Maharashtra Legislature Leaders[edit | edit source]

House	Leader	Since
Leader of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Party
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly BJP Party	Devendra Fadnavis	26 November 2024
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly SHS Party	Eknath Shinde	26 November 2024
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly NCP Party	Sunetra Ajit Pawar	31 January 2026
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly SS(UBT) Party	Aaditya Thackeray	26 November 2024
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly Congress Party	Vijay Wadettiwar	13 February 2025
Group Leader of Legislative Assembly NCP(SP) Party	Jitendra Awhad	1 December 2024

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

List of members of the 15th Maharashtra Assembly

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ No leader of opposition because no political party obtained at least 10% of the seats in the assembly.
↑ No party secured 10% of seats to form official opposition.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "In a first in six decades, no Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly". The Hindu. 24 November 2024.
↑ "Maharashtra Legislature". Retrieved 3 July 2024.
↑ "Uddhav Sena sticks its neck out, fields Milind Narvekar for Maharashtra Legislative Council polls". The Indian Express. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
↑ "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly". Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2024election
↑ "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai" (PDF). Legislative Bodies in India website. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
↑ "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India website. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.

External links[edit | edit source]

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections Website Archived 27 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine
"State Election Commission". Government of Maharashtra. 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.

[2] No leader of opposition because no political party obtained at least 10% of the seats in the assembly.

[3] No party secured 10% of seats to form official opposition.

[1] "In a first in six decades, no Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly". The Hindu. 24 November 2024.

[mls-4] "Maharashtra Legislature". Retrieved 3 July 2024.

[2019election-5] "Uddhav Sena sticks its neck out, fields Milind Narvekar for Maharashtra Legislative Council polls". The Indian Express. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.

[cpa-6] "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly". Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Retrieved 3 July 2024.

[2024election-7] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2024election

[lbi-8] "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai" (PDF). Legislative Bodies in India website. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2010.

[9] "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India website. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.

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