Election Name: | Goa legislative assembly election, 1999 |
Country: | India |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1994 Goa Legislative Assembly election |
Previous Year: | 1994 |
Next Election: | 2002 Goa Legislative Assembly election |
Next Year: | 2002 |
Election Date: | 4 June 1999 |
Seats For Election: | All 40 seats in the Assembly |
Turnout: | 65% |
Leader1: | Luizinho Faleiro |
Image1: | Hand INC.svg |
Leaders Seat1: | Navelim |
Party1: | Indian National Congress |
Seats1: | 21 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Leader2: | Manohar Parrikar |
Leaders Seat2: | Panaji |
Party2: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Seats2: | 10 |
Seat Change2: | 6 |
Chief Minister | |
Posttitle: | Chief Minister after election |
Before Election: | Luizinho Faleiro |
Before Party: | Indian National Congress |
After Election: | Luizinho Faleiro |
After Party: | Indian National Congress |
Majority Seats: | 21 |
Elections for the Indian state of Goa took place in June 1999.[1] [2] [3]
Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | ||||||
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1 | Indian National Congress | 40 | 21 | ||||||
2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 39 | 10 | ||||||
3 | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak | 17 | 4 | ||||||
4 | United Goans Democratic Party | 11 | 2 | ||||||
5 | Goa Rajiv Congress Party | 14 | 2 | ||||||
6 | Independent | 49 | 1 | ||||||
Total | 40 |
The following is the list of winning MLAs in the election.[4]
No. | Constituency | Winner | Party | Margin | Remark | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ramakant Khalap | 1,182 | ||||
2 | Jitendra Deshprabhu | 1,166 | ||||
3 | Manohar Ajgaonkar | 1,096 | ||||
4 | Dayanand Narvekar | 2,656 | ||||
5 | Francis D'Souza | 1,575 | ||||
6 | Dayanand Mandrekar | 792 | ||||
7 | Suresh Parulekar | 749 | ||||
8 | Wilfred de Souza | 464 | ||||
9 | Aldona | Ulhas Asnodkar | 3,849 | |||
10 | Manohar Parrikar | 2,749 | ||||
11 | Somanth Juwarkar | 1,827 | ||||
12 | Victoria Fernandes | 5,387 | ||||
13 | Francisco Silveira | 2,704 | ||||
14 | 850 | |||||
15 | Pandurang Raut | 90 | ||||
16 | Prakash Fadte | 838 | ||||
17 | Suresh Amonkar | 2,351 | ||||
18 | Pratapsing Rane | 4,458 | ||||
19 | Venkatesh Desai | 854 | ||||
20 | Ravi Naik | 4,036 | ||||
21 | Vishwas Satarkar | 1,970 | ||||
22 | Ramkrishna 'Sudin' Dhavalikar | 694 | ||||
23 | Subhash Shirodkar | 3,209 | ||||
24 | Sheikh Hassan Haroon | 1,023 | ||||
25 | Jose Philip D'Souza | 1,508 | ||||
26 | Mauvin Godinho | 1,101 | ||||
27 | Aleixo Sequeira | Unopposed | ||||
28 | Churchill Alemao | 4,837 | ||||
29 | Luis Cardozo | 2,743 | ||||
30 | Digambar Kamat | 3,277 | ||||
31 | Francisco Sardinha | 9,550 | ||||
32 | Luizinho Faleiro | 9,761 | ||||
33 | Filipe Nery Rodrigues | 5,272 | ||||
34 | Arecio D'Souza | 2,214 | ||||
35 | Vinay Tendulkar | 676 | ||||
36 | Prabhakar Gaonkar | 787 | ||||
37 | Adv. Ramrao Desai | 369 | ||||
38 | Prakash Velip | 369 | ||||
39 | Sanjay Bandekar | 171 | ||||
40 | Isidore Fernandes | 1,659 | ||||
Indian National Congress formed the government under the leadership of Luizinho Faleiro which lasted for 169 days. Francisco Sardinha broke the Indian National Congress and formed the government with the help of Bharatiya Janata Party which lasted for 334 days.
On 24 October 2000, Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first government in Goa under the leadership of Manohar Parrikar which lasted for 1 year and 223 days before the next elections were called off.