Maharashtra: assembly and council elections

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Maharashtra: assembly elections (1985 onwards)

Maharashtra assembly elections 2014: BJP first party to hit century in state since 1990

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1985

In 1985, BJP contested 67 assembly seats and had won only 16 when the Congress dominance was at its peak after the assassination of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

At that time, Congress had won 161 out of the 287 seats it contested, securing 43.55 per cent votes.

1990

In the 1990 assembly polls, Congress had secured as many as 141 seats in the 288-member House.

Since then, no national or regional party had come anywhere near the 100 mark: till 2014.

In 1990, the first assembly polls jointly contested by the BJP and Shiv Sena had seen the BJP secure just 42 seats out of 104 it contested and Shiv Sena won 52 out of the 183 alloted to it.

Former BJP leader late Pramod Mahajan was the architect of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance — the oldest ideological partnership of the BJP.

With Mahajan striking a rapport with late Bal Thackeray — the Shiv Sena supremo had offered the Deputy Chief Ministership to the national party, which was till recently before that playing the second fiddle in the state.

1995

BJP-Shiv Sena together secured as many as 138 seats in 1995 (BJP-65, Shiv Sena-73) when they had formed the first non-Congress coalition government in the state.

1999

With Sharad Pawar parting ways with Congress in 1999, the Congress vote got divided and since then, the party shared power with the NCP till 2014.

2014

The Lok Sabha polls earlier in 2014 changed the political complexion of Maharashtra with BJP and its allies capturing 42 out of 48 seats in the state, the second-largest after Uttar Pradesh having 80 seats.

Riding on the Narendra Modi wave, the BJP crossed the century mark in the assembly election in Maharashtra,.

Making deep inroads into Congress and NCP bastions, BJP got 122 seats.

Though the party failed to reach the halfway mark of 144, BJP's record was impressive as it is got nearly three times the seats it secured in 2009 assembly polls when its tally was 47.

The BJP tally was more than the combined figure of 92 seats it had won along with the Shiv Sena in the 2009. This indicated that the gamble played by the Prime Minister Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah more than paid off.