2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature, comprising two houses. The lower house, known as the Legislative Assembly ("Vidhan Sabha" in Marathi), is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. The upper house, known as the Legislative Council ("Vidhan Parishad" in Marathi) is elected indirectly by several specially designated electorates.

2014 Maharashtra Assembly election
15 October 2014
All 288 seats to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
145 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout63.38% (3.70%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Devendra Fadnavis Uddhav Thackeray Prithviraj Chavan
Party BJP SHS INC
Alliance NDA NDA UPA
Leader's seat Nagpur South West Did Not Contest Karad South
Last election 46 seats 44 seats 82 seats
Seats won 122 63 42
Seat change 76 19 40
Popular vote 14,709,276 10,235,970 9,496,095
Percentage 27.81% 19.35% 17.95%
Swing 13.79 pp 3.09 pp 3.06 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Ajit Pawar
Party NCP
Alliance UPA
Leader's seat Baramati
Last election 62 seats
Seats won 41
Seat change 21
Popular vote 9,122,285
Percentage 17.24%
Swing 0.87 pp
Results of 2014 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Elections
Chief Minister before election

Prithviraj Chavan
INC

 Elected Chief Minister

Devendra Fadnavis
BJP

The Legislative Assembly has a tenure of five years, at most, and it may be dissolved before time in case the government falls for lack of majority, and nobody else can cobble up a majority. The Assembly has a strength of 288 seats, each seat being a geographical constituency.

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