2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

20 November 2024

All 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
145 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout66.57% ( 5.13 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Devendra Fadnavis Eknath Shinde Ajit Pawar
Party BJP SHS NCP
Alliance MY MY MY
Leader since 2013 2019 2022
Leader's seat Nagpur South-West Kopri-Pachpakhadi Baramati
Last election 25.75%, 105 seats Party split after last election Party split after last election
Seats before 102 38 40
Seats won 132 57 41
Seat change 27 19 1
Popular vote 17,293,650 7,996,930 5,816,566
Percentage 26.77% 12.38% 9.01%
Swing 1.02 pp New New

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
NCP (SP)
Leader Uddhav Thackeray Nana Patole Jayant Patil
Party SS(UBT) INC NCP(SP)
Alliance MVA MVA MVA
Leader since 2024 2023 2024
Leader's seat MLC Sakoli Islampur
Last election Party split after last election 15.87%, 44 seats Party split after last election
Seats before 16 37 12
Seats won 20 16 10
Seat change 4 28 2
Popular vote 6,433,013 8,020,921 7,287,797
Percentage 9.96% 12.42% 11.28%
Swing New 3.45 pp New'



Chief Minister before election

Eknath Shinde
SHS
Maha Yuti

Chief Minister after election

Devendra Fadnavis
BJP
Maha Yuti

The 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections were held on 20 November 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The turnout for the election was 66.05%, the highest since 1995. The BJP-led Maha Yuti alliance won a landslide victory, winning 235 seats. None of the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance won the necessary number of seats to obtain the position of leader of opposition, a first in six decades.

The BJP leadership finalized Devendra Fadnavis as the Maharashtra Chief Minister post at a key meeting held on 4 December 2024 and he took an oath as the Chief Minister for the third time, on 5 December 2024.