Within the final sixty years the best ever polling in Maharashtra came about within the 1995, recording 71.69 per cent.
The mandate clearly altered the permutation and mixture ensuing within the ouster of Congress, with an undivided Shiv Sena and BJP comfortably coming to energy, with chief minister Manohar Joshi and deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde. Whereas Joshi belonged to Shiv Sena, Munde was the mass chief of BJP.
After the creation of Maharashtra on Could 1, 1960 via the linguistic state reorganisation act, the primary meeting elections came about in 1962. The Congress was then the unchallenged dominant political pressure below then veteran chief minister Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan.
From 1962 to 2024, fourteen meeting elections have taken place in Maharashtra.
Curiously, political change from the Congress to the Shiv Sena-BJP-led authorities (1995) additionally marked the best ever leap in polling share of 9.43 per cent. Within the 1990 Meeting polls, whole voting registered was 62.26 per cent, which elevated to 71.69 per cent in 1995.
Whereas the common voting share in Maharashtra within the final six a long time noticed polling above 60 per cent, it fell wanting this thrice ā 53.30 per cent in 1980, 59.17 per cent in 1985 and 59.68 per cent in 2009.
Though Shiv Sena below the management of Bal Thackeray got here into being since June 19,1966, BJP, which was carved out of the esrtwhile Jana Sangha, turned a full fledged political social gathering on April 6, 1980.
In late Eighties, Shiv Sena-BJP fashioned the coalition authorities preventing in opposition to the Congress. On June 10, 1999 Sharad Pawar parted with the Congress to type a separate social gathering, NCP. Since then the state noticed political battle between two fronts ā Shiv Sena/BJP versus Congress/NCP, which was additional fragmented with splits in two regional events in 2022 and 2023. At current the state has three pre-poll companions ā Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) versus BJP, Shiv Sena, NCP.
The very best ever decline in voting was seen within the 1980 Meeting polls, when the vote share got here right down to 53.30 computer from 67.59 per cent in 1978.
Prior to now six a long time, the Shiv Sena/BJP was authorities from 1995-1999 and 2014-2019. In its second time period, the saffron coalition was led by BJP chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. In 2022-2024, The BJP-led Shiv Sena/NCP coalition has been in energy for the final two-and-a-half years (2022-2024) led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Out of 20 chief ministers, 15 belonged to Congress/NCP and 5 to the Shiv Sena/ BJP.
The record of Congress chief ministers are Yashwantrao Chavan, Marotrao Kannamwar, P Ok Sawant, Vasantrao Naik, Shankarrao Chavan, Vasantdada Patil, Sharad Pawar, A R Antulay, Babasaheb Bhosale, Shivajirao Nilengekar, Sudhakarrao Naik, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushilkumar Shinde, Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj Chavan.
The non-Congress CMs included then undivided Shiv Sena Manohar Joshi, Narayan Rane, Uddhav Thackeray, Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) and Eknath Shinde.
