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The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017. [1] [2] VVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT. [3] [4] [5]
The term of the Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017. [2] The last election had resulted in a 21-seat majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Manohar Parrikar. [6] Parrikar was elected Chief Minister. In 2014, he had to resign due to being nominated as Minister of Defence. Laxmikant Parsekar took oath as Chief Minister as Parrikar's successor. [7] [8]
| Polling firm | Date | BJP | INC | AAP | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HuffPost-CVoter [9] | Feb 2017 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 8 |
| The Week - Hansa [10] | Jan 2017 | 17-19 (18) | 11-13 (12) | 2-4 (3) | 3-5 (4) |
| Axis My India - India Today [11] | Jan 2017 | 20-24 (22) | 13-15 (14) | 2-4 (3) | 1-2 (1) |
| Axis My India - India Today [12] | Oct 2016 | 17-21 (19) | 13-16 (15) | 1-3 (2) | 3-5 (4) |
| Kautilya [13] | Aug 2016 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 8 |
| VDP Associates [14] | July 2016 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| Election results | March 2017 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 10 |
| District | Electors | Polled | Turnout % |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Goa | 540,785 | 458,074 | 84.71% |
| South Goa | 570,907 | 459,758 | 80.53% |
| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ± % | Won | +/− | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 2,97,588 | 32.5 | 2.2 | 13 | 8 | |||
| Indian National Congress (INC) | 2,59,758 | 28.4 | 2.4 | 17 |  8 | |||
| Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG) | 1,03,290 | 11.3 | 4.6 | 3 |  | |||
| Independents (IND) | 1,01,922 | 11.1 | 5.5 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) | 57,420 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 0 | | |||
| Goa Forward Party (GFP) | 31,900 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 20,916 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) | 10,745 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0 | | |||
| United Goans Party (UGP) | 8,563 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0 | | |||
| Goa Vikas Party (GVP) | 5,379 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Others | 7,816 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 0 | | |||
| None of the Above (NOTA) | 10,919 | 1.2 | 1.2 | — | ||||
| Total | 9,16,216 | 100.00 | 40 | ±0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 9,16,216 | 99.85 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 1,416 | 0.15 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 9,17,832 | 82.56 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 1,93,860 | 17.44 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 11,11,692 | |||||||
The following is the list of winning MLAs in the election. [16]
| No. | Constituency | Winner | Party | Margin | Remark | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panaji | Manohar Parrikar | BJP | 4803 | Expired | |
| 2 | Valpoi | Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane | BJP | 10066 | ||
| 3 | Mapusa | Joshua D'Souza | BJP | 1151 | ||
| 4 | Shiroda | Subhash Shirodkar | BJP | 76 | ||
| 5 | Mandrem | Dayanand Sopte | BJP | 4124 | ||
| 6 | Panaji | Atanasio Monserrate | INC | 1758 | Joined BJP in 2019 | |
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