The 1978 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held in March 1978 for the fifth term of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. A total of 288 seats were contested.Key Highlights of General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India Congress factions (u) and (i) formed the government and Vasantdada Patil was sworn in again as the Chief Minister.
List of participating political parties Party Abbreviation National parties JP INC Indian National Congress (Indira) INC(I) Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPM CPIState parties IUML Peasants and Workers Party PWP AIFBRegistered (unrecognised) parties HMS SHS RPI Republican Party of India (Khobragade) RPI(K)
Results
Party results
!colspan=10| |- 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"|Janata Party||215||99|| 99||5,701,399||27.99%|| 27.99% (New Party)
|align="left"|Indian National Congress||259||69|| 153||5,159,828||25.33%|| 31.03%
|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Indira)||203||62|| 62||3,735,308||18.34%|| 18.34% (New Party)
|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||88||13|| 6||1,129,172||5.54%|| 0.12%
|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||12||9|| 8||345,008||1.69%|| 0.92%
|align="left"|All India Forward Bloc||6||3|| 1||166,497||0.82%|| 1.58%
|align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade)||23||2|| 2||287,533||1.41%|| 1.41% (New Party)
|align="left"|Republican Party of India||25||2||||215,487||1.06%|| 2.71%
|align="left"|Communist Party of India||48||1|| 1||301,056||1.48%|| 1.25%
| 35 | 0 | 1 | 369,749 | 1.82% | 0.02%
| 5 | 0 | | 88,654 | 0.44% | 0.26%
|align="left"|Independents||894||28|| 5||2,864,023||14.06%|| 1.38% |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1819||288|| 18||20,367,221||67.59%|| 6.94%
Results by constituency