Goa legislative assembly election, 2012

Goa legislative assembly election, 2012

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All 40 assembly constituencies
Majority party Minority party   Leader Manohar Parrikar Digambar Kamat Party BJP INC Last election 16 16 Seats won 21 9 Seat change 5 7
Chief Minister before election Digambar Kamat INC Elected Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar BJP

Digambar Kamat
INC

Manohar Parrikar
BJP

The Goa legislative assembly election was held on 3 March 2012, to select the 40 members of the Vidhan Sabha.

The result was announced on 6 March. The Bharatiya Janata Party-Maharashtrawadi Gomantak alliance defeated the incumbent Indian National Congress government in Goa led by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat with 24 seats in the 40-seat assembly. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 21 seats, while the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party won 3 seats. The MLA with the biggest margin of victory was the Roman Catholic incumbent MLA Frances D'Souza of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Former chief minister Manohar Parrikar was sworn in as the new chief minister.

The timetable of the electoral events are:

The Indian National Congress (INC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the national political parties in the fray. Other regional parties include the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak, Goa Vikas Party, United Goans Democratic Party and Go Su-raj Party.

The issue of the cultural identity of Goa has also come to the fore in the past few years. The population of Goa has rapidly swelled due to increasing migration levels from neighbouring Karnataka and Maharashtra, as well as from further afield such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

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