The 1962 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held for the second term of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. A total of 264 seats were contested. The Indian National Congress won 215 of the 264 seats.
List of participating political parties
Party Abbreviation National Parties Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh BJS SWA INC SOC PSP CPIState Parties Peasants and Workers Party PWP RPIRegistered (Unrecognised) Parties HMS RRP
Results
Party results
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change in vote %
|align="left"|Indian National Congress |264 |215 | 80 |5,617,347 |51.22% | 2.56%
|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India |79 |15 | 16 |818,801 |7.47% | 0.81%
|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party |101 |9 | 24 |792,755 |7.23% | 1.74%
|align="left"|Communist Party of India |56 |6 | 7 |647,390 |5.90% | 2.27%
|align="left"|Republican Party of India |66 |3 | 10 (from SCF seats) |589,653 |5.38% | 0.85% (from SCF vote share)
|align="left"|Socialist Party |14 |1 | 1 |54,764 |0.50% | 0.50% (New Party)
|align="left"| Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 127 | 0 | 4 | 548,097 | 5.00% | 3.44%
| 9 | 0 | (New Party) | 48,484 | 0.44% | 0.44% (New Party)
|5 |0 |1 |12,109 |0.11% | 0.32%
|align="left"|Independents |437 |15 | 19 |1,836,095 |16.74% | 7.03% |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1161||264||||10,966,279||60.36%|| 7.20%
Results by constituency