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All 40 seats in Goa Legislative Assembly 21 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Structure of the Goa Legislative Assembly after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 February 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on 18 March 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 |
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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 % |
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North Goa | 540,785 | 458,074 | 84.71% |
South Goa | 570,907 | 459,758 | 80.53% |
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
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Votes | % | ± % | Won | +/− | ||||
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 2,97,588 | 32.5 | ![]() | 13 | ![]() | |||
Indian National Congress (INC) | 2,59,758 | 28.4 | ![]() | 17 | ![]() | |||
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG) | 1,03,290 | 11.3 | ![]() | 3 | ![]() | |||
Independents (IND) | 1,01,922 | 11.1 | ![]() | 3 | ![]() | |||
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) | 57,420 | 6.3 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | |||
Goa Forward Party (GFP) | 31,900 | 3.5 | ![]() | 3 | ![]() | |||
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 20,916 | 2.3 | ![]() | 1 | ![]() | |||
Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) | 10,745 | 1.2 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | |||
United Goans Party (UGP) | 8,563 | 0.9 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | |||
Goa Vikas Party (GVP) | 5,379 | 0.6 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | |||
Others | 7,816 | 0.9 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | |||
None of the Above (NOTA) | 10,919 | 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 | |
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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 |