1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in March 1985, to elect 288 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.[1]

1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections
1985
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Vasantdada Patil Sharad Pawar
Party INC IC(S) JP
Leader's seat Sangli Baramati
Seats before 186 17
Seats won 161 54 20
Seat change 25 54 3
  Fourth party
 
Party BJP
Seats won 16
Seat change 2

Results

Indian National Congress won majority seats in the Assembly, Vasantdada Patil became Chief Minister. Shankarrao Chimaji Jagatap became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Sharad Pawar became Leader of the Opposition.[2]

Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985[1]
Political Party
 No. of candidates
 No. of elected
 Number of Votes
 % of Votes
 Seat change
Indian National Congress2871619,522,55643.41% 25
Indian National Congress (Socialist)126543,790,85017.28% 54
Janata Party61201,618,1017.38% 20
Bharatiya Janata Party67161,590,3517.25% 2
Peasants and Workers Party of India2913825,9493.77% 4
Communist Party of India312202,7900.92%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)142174,3500.79%
Independents1506203,836,39017.49% 10
Total223028821,934,742

Region-wise Results
Region Total seats Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (S) Bharatiya Janata Party Janata Party Others
Western Maharashtra 70 22 31 5 1 1
Vidarbha 62 51 4 7
Marathwada 46 33 10 2
Thane+Konkan 39 18 2 1
Mumbai 36 15 1 1
North Maharashtra 35 22 6 3
Total[3] 288 161 54 20 16

List of winning candidates

The following is the list of candidates won:[4]

Constituency NameMember of Legislative AssemblyPolitical partyVotes polled
AchalpurSudan DeshmukhCPI / Independent
AmgaonMahadevrao ShivankarBJP
Aurangabad EastHaribhau BagadeBJP
BaramatiSharad PawarINC(Socialist)53,545
BorivaliRam NaikBJP
ChandwadJayachand KasliwalBJP
ChemburParvati PariharCongress
DadarSharayu ThakurCongress(I)
DevalaliBhikchand Haribhau DondeBJP
DevgadAppa GogteBJP
EdlabadJaware HaribhauICS (Socialist Congress)
Goregaon (Bhandara)Khushal BopcheBJP
Goregaon (Mumbai)Mrinal GoreJanata Party
GuhagarShridhar NatuBJP
KalyanRam KapseBJP
Kasba PethUlhas KalokheCongress35,588
KhamgaonManikrao GawandeCongress
KhetwadiPremkumar Shankardatt SharmaBJP
LakhandurNamdeorao DiwateBJP
MahimSham ShettyCongress
MalkapurVasantrao ShindeCongress
MatungaV SubramanyamCongress(I)
MumbadeviLalit KapadiaCongress
Nagpur EastAvinash PandeCongress(I)
Nagpur WestGev AvariCongress(I)
Nagpur NorthDamuantibai DeshbhratarCongress
Nagpur SouthAshok DhawadCongress(I)
Nagpur CentralShoukat Rehman QureshiCongress(I)
NashikDaulatrao AherBJP
NehrunagarBabasaheb BhosaleCongress(I)
Opera HouseChandrashekhar PrabhuCongress
RatnagiriShivajirao JadyarCongress
RaverGunawant SarodeBJP
SakriGovindrao ChaudharyBJP
SangliVasantdada PatilCongress(I)
SataraAbhaysinh Raje BhosleCongress(I)
ShivajinagarAnna JoshiBJP
UlhasnagarSitaldas Khubchand HarchandaniBJP
VaijapurRamkrishna Baba PatilCongress
Vile ParleHans BhugraCongress

References
  1. "Key Highlights of General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India". Missing or empty |url= (help)Key Highlights of General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India ()
  2. "Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), National Informatics Centre". Missing or empty |url= (help)Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), National Informatics Centre ()
  3. "Spoils of five-point duel". Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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