- Richest state in India |
- Congress bastion turned BJP’s state in the making
- Gujarat & Maharashtra | came into existence | May 1, 1960, | with division of the Bombay state |
- Bombay State | 396 assembly seats | Maharashtra (264 assembly seats) | Gujarat (132 assembly seats) |
- The era of Congress dominance | from the first elections in 1951-52 | to 1978 |
- Congress split pre-1978 Maharashtra assembly election | Congress (Indira) | & Congress (Devraj Urs) |
- 1978 Maharashtra assembly elections | Janata Party (99 seats) | Congress (U) (69) | Congress (Indira) (62) |
- Coalition government | Congress (U) + Congress (Indira) | led by Vasantdada Patil | survived for four months |
- 1978 | Sharad Pawar | then 38 | left Congress | and formed the Congress (Socialist) | joined hands with Janata Party | & became CM of the state |
- 1980 | Indira Gandhi led Union Govt | dismissed Sharad Pawar led Maharashtra government |
- 1980 Maharashtra assembly elections | Congress returns to power | with only Muslim CM of Maharashtra so far (A R Antulay) |
- The Congress party won the 1985 Maharashtra assembly election | & emerged as the largest party in 1990 assembly election | winning 141 seats in 288-member assembly | & forming the government.
- 1995 Maharashtra assembly election | BJP + Shiv Sena coalition came to power | Shiv Sena won 73 | BJP won 65 seats | under Shiv Sena’s Manohar Joshi as CM |
- Feb 1999 | Shiv Sena replaced CM | Narayan Rane took oath |
- 1999 | early elections called in Maharashtra | Shiv Sena-BJP Vs Congress Vs NCP | Shiv Sena (69) | BJP (56) | Congress (75) | NCP (58) | Congress-NCP post-poll alliance formed government |
- Congress + NCP coalition emerged victorious in the state’s 2004, 2009, and 2014 assembly elections.
- 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections | BJP + Shiv Sena combine emerged victorious | BJP (122) | Shiv Sena (66) | with government under BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis (44-years-old) |
- 2019 | BJP + Shiv Sena alliance scored victory | BJP (105) Shiv Sena (56) | dramatic events followed | with Shiv Sena breaking alliance | Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) by Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress | MVA govt with Uddhav Thackeray as CM.
- 2019 to 2023 | major factions of Shiv Sena and NCP decided to join the NDA | with split in both parties | Shiv Sena | Shiv Sena (UBT) | NCP | NCP (SP) | BJP led Mahayuti govt with Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde as CM |
- 2024 assembly elections | massive victory by Mahayuti (235 seats) | with BJP’s strongest performance in Maharashtra (132 seats) so far | with 89% strike rate |
