Goa Legislative Assembly election, 1977 was held in

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

n Union territory of

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to th ...

in 1977, to elect 30 members to the

Goa Legislative Assembly The Goa Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the state of Goa in India. The Assembly meets at the Goa State Legislative Assembly Complex in Porvorim, Bardez. The Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly consists of 40 members. The asse ...

Results

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Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India, it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed in power ...

, , 29, , 15, , 116,339, , 38.49%, , 3 , - , , align="left",

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

, , 27, , 10, , 87,461, , 28.94%, , 9 , - , , align="left",

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nat ...

, , 30, , 3, , 69,823, , 23.10%, , 3 , - , , align="left", Independents, , 57, , 2, , 28,022, , 9.27%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Total, , 145, , 30, , 302,237, , , , , -

Winning candidates

References

{{Goan elections State Assembly elections in Goa 1970s in Goa

1970s in Goa, Daman and Diu Elections in Goa, Daman and Diu