14th Maharashtra Assembly

The Members of 14th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra were elected in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, with results announced on 24 October 2019.

14th Maharashtra Assembly
13th Maharashtra Assembly
Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Mumbai
Overview
Legislative bodyMaharashtra Legislative Assembly
Term21 October 2019 
Election2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
Government
  • Second Fadnavis ministry (2019 - 2019)
  • Thackeray ministry (2019–2022)
  • Eknath Shinde ministry (2022–Present)
Sovereign
Governor
House of the People
Members288
Speaker of the House
  • Nana Patole (2019-2021)
  • Narhari Sitaram Zirwal (Acting) (2021-2022)
  • Rahul Narwekar (2022-Present)
Chief Minister
Deputy Chief Minister
Leader of the House
Leader of the Opposition
Party control
  • BJP+NCP (2019-2019)
  • Maha Vikas Aghadi (2019-2022)

National Democratic Alliance (2022-Present)

The majority needed to form the government is 145 seats in the assembly of 288 MLAs. The incumbent BJP Shiv Sena alliance crossed the majority of 145 seats needed in the assembly by winning a total of 161 seats in the alliance. Individually BJP won 105 and SHS won 56 seats. The Opposition INC-NCP Alliance with 106 seats did not reach the majority mark. Individually INC won 44 and NCP won 54 seats. Due to differences in power sharing arrangement, 2019 Maharashtra political crisis ensued and Shiv Sena refused to support the newly sworned BJP CM. BJP did not prove majority in assembly. Shivsena and BJP split from their alliance.

Shiv Sena formed post-poll alliance with the Congress-NCP thus gaining majority of 172. The new alliance was named Maha Vikas Aghadi. Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray was sworn is as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra. BJP became the principal opposition party in Maharashtra.

On 21 June 2022, Eknath Shinde, a senior Shiv Sena leader, along with several other MLAs of the Maha Vikas Aghadi moved to Surat, Gujarat throwing the coalition into a crisis.

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