The Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1990 was held in

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

, India in 1990, to elect 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Results

List of Political Parties participated in 1990 Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Indian National Congress won the most number of seats. And Sharad Pawar was sworn in as the 7th Chief minister of Maharashtra. Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1990

Region-wise Breakup

District-wise Results

Analysis

According to journalist Makarand Gadgil, 1990 election was a "watershed election in Maharashtra’s politics". Because, the right-wing BJP and

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

emerged as the major opposition for the first time winning 94 seats. Whereas until 1990 election, various left-wing parties like the Peasants and Workers Party,

Indian National Congress (Socialist) Indian Congress (Socialist) (IC(S)) also known as Congress (Secular) was a political party in India between 1978 and 1986. The party was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress. Initially the party was known as the Indian Natio ...

, Janata Party, Janata Dal, Republican Party of India,

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and Communist Party of India (Marxist) were the main opposition. These parties won 38 seats in the 1990 election. They won only 8 seats in the 2009 Assembly election showing that their decline has continued.

Elected members

References

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