Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 1972
Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1972 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1972, to elect 270 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.[1]
Results
Indian National Congress won most number of seats and a clear majority. Vasantrao Naik, the incumbent Chief Minister was reelected for the post. S. K. Wankhede became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Ramkrishna
Vyankatesh Bet became Deputy Speaker. Dinkar Balu Patil was Leader of the Opposition.[2]
Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1972
|
Political Party
|
No. of candidates
|
No. of elected
|
Number of Votes
|
% of Votes
|
Seat change
|
| |
Indian National Congress | 271 | 222 | 8,535,832 | 56.36% |  19 |
| |
Peasants and Workers Party of India | 58 | 7 | 856,986 | 5.66% |  12 |
| |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 122 | 5 | 947,266 | 6.25% | 1 |
| |
Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party | 52 | 3 | 693,797 | 4.58% | 1 |
| |
Communist Party of India | 44 | 2 | 412,857 | 2.73% | 8 |
| |
All India Forward Bloc | 26 | 2 | 363,547 | 2.40% | 2 |
| |
Republican Party of India | 118 | 2 | 570,533 | 3.77% | 3 |
| |
Shiv Sena | 26 | 1 | 279,210 | 1.84% | 1 |
| |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 20 | 1 | 117,134 | 0.77% | - |
|
Bharatiya Kranti Dal | 2 | 1 | 31,508 | 0.21% | 1 |
| |
Indian Union Muslim League | 1 | 1 | 27,138 | 0.18% | 1 |
| |
Independents | 343 | 23 | 1,920,667 | 12.68% | 7 |
|
Total | 1196 | 270 | 15,146,171 | - | - |
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