1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

The 1980 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held in July 1980. A total of 288 seats were contested.

List of participating political parties

Party Abbreviation National Parties BJP Indian National Congress (Urs) INC(U) Indian National Congress (Indira) INC(I) JP Janata Party (Secular)-Ch. Charan Singh JP(SC) Janata Party (Secular)-Raj Narain JP(SR) Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPM CPIState Parties IUML Peasants and Workers Party PWP AIFBRegistered (Unrecognised) Parties RPI Republican Party of India (Khobragade) RPI(K)

Results

The Indian National Congress (Indira) got a clear majority, winning 186 seats, when 144 were required for a simple majority. Abdul Rehman Antulay became Chief Minister, Sharad Shankar Dighe became Speaker, and Sharad Pawar became leader of the opposition.

|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Indira)||286||186|| 124||7,809,533||44.50%|| 26.16%

|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Urs)||192||47|| 22 (from INC seats)||3,596,582||20.49%|| 4.84% (from INC vote share)

|align="left"|Janata Party||111||17|| 82||1,511,042||8.61%|| 19.38%

|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||145||14|| 14||1,645,734||9.38%|| 9.38% (New Party)

|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||41||9|| 4||726,338||4.14%|| 1.40%

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||17||2|| 1||230,570||1.31%|| 0.17%

|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||10||2|| 7||162,651||0.93%|| 0.76%

|align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade)||42||1|| 1||239,286||1.36%|| 0.05%

|36 |0 | 2 |132,798 |0.76% | 0.30%

|1 |0 |3 |5,598 |0.03% |0.79%

|align="left"|Independents||612||10|| 18||1,409,177||8.03%|| 6.03% |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1537||288||||17,548,655||53.30%|| 14.29%

Results by constituency

1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

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