Next Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

The Next Maharashtra Legislative assembly election is scheduled to be held in or before October 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.[1][2]

Next Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
By October 2024
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Devendra Fadnavis Prithviraj Chavan Ajit Pawar
Party BJP INC NCP(AP)
Alliance NDA MVA NDA
Leader's seat Nagpur South West Karad South Baramati
Last election 25.75%,
105 seats		 15.87%,
44 seats		 New Party
Seats before 105 45 40
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Eknath Shinde Uddhav Thackeray Sharad Pawar
Party SHS SS(UBT) NCP
Alliance NDA MVA MVA
Leader's seat Kopri-Pachpakhadi Did not contest Did not contest
Last election 16.41%,
56 seats		 New Party 16.71%,
54 seats
Seats before 40 17 13
Chief Minister before election

Eknath Shinde
SHS

 Elected Chief Minister

TBD

Background
Main article: 2019 Maharashtra political crisis

The previous Assembly elections were held in October 2019. The Bharatiya Janata Party led alliance NDA[3] got a clear majority to form government but due to internal conflict, Shiv Sena left the alliance (NDA) and form a new alliance with Nationalist Congress Party and Indian National Congress called MVA[4] and form the state government, with Uddhav Thackeray becoming chief minister. After 2022 Maharashtra political crisis, Eknath Shinde along with 40 MLAs formed government with BJP. Eknath Shinde became the new chief minister. After 2023 Maharashtra political crisis, Ajit Pawar faction of Nationalist Congress Party also joined the government.

Schedule
Poll Event Schedule
Notification Date TBD
Last Date for filing nomination TBD
Scrutiny of nomination TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination TBD
Date of Poll TBD
Date of Counting of Votes TBD

Parties and alliances
Alliance/Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested
National Democratic Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party Devendra Fadnavis
Shiv Sena Eknath Shinde
Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) Ajit Pawar
Prahar Janshakti Party Bachchu Kadu
Rashtriya Samaj Paksha Mahadev Jankar
Jan Surajya Shakti Vinay Kore
Republican Party of India (Athawale) Ramdas Athawale
Maha Vikas Aghadi Indian National Congress Prithviraj Chavan
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Uddhav Thackeray
Nationalist Congress Party Jayant Patil
Samajwadi Party Abu Azmi
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vinod Bhiva Nikole
Peasants and Workers Party of India Jayant Prabhakar Patil
Swabhimani Paksha Raju Shetti
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi Prakash Ambedkar
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Raj Thackeray
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Imtiyaz Jaleel
Bahujan Vikas Aghadi Hitendra Thakur
Bahujan Samaj Party Adv Sandeep Tajne

Notes

    References
    1. "MVA will win State elections in 2024, Uddhav Thackeray to be CM again': Awhad quotes Sharad Pawar as saying". Hindustan Times. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
    2. "No chance of alliance with Shiv Sena for 2024 Assembly polls: Maharashtra BJP chief". The Indian Express. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
    3. "NDA: What is left of NDA after Akali Dal, Shiv Sena exit: Saamana - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
    4. "Ahmed Patel played a significant role in formation of MVA govt: Uddhav Thackeray". Hindustan Times. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
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