| Election Name: | 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | Legislative |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Previous Election: | 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election |
| Election Date: | October 2024 |
| Next Year: | 2029 |
| Seats For Election: | All 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 145 |
| Opinion Polls: | 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election#Opinion polls |
| Outgoing Members: | 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly#Members of Legislative Assembly |
| Leader1: | Devendra Fadnavis |
| Party1: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alliance1: | MY |
| Leaders Seat1: | Nagpur South West |
| Last Election1: | 25.75%, 105 seats |
| Seats Before1: | 104 |
| Party2: | Indian National Congress |
| Leader2: | Prithviraj Chavan |
| Leaders Seat2: | Karad South |
| Leader Since2: | 2010 |
| Alliance2: | Maha Vikas Aghadi |
| Last Election2: | 15.87%, 44 seats |
| Seats Before2: | 45 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Chief Minister | |
| Before Election: | Eknath Shinde |
| Before Party: | Shiv Sena |
| Posttitle: | Chief Minister after election |
| Leader Since1: | 2014 |
| Seats Needed1: | 40 |
| Seats Needed2: | 99 |
Legislative Assembly elections are speculated to be held in Maharashtra in 2024 to elect the 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
See main article: 2019 Maharashtra political crisis. The tenure of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 26 November.[1] The previous Assembly elections in Maharashtra were held in October 2019. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance achieved a majority to form the government, but due to internal conflict, Shiv Sena left the alliance[2] to form a new alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi with Nationalist Congress Party and Indian National Congress.[3] Maha Vikas Aghadi formed the state government with Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray becoming chief minister.[4]
See main article: 2022 Maharashtra political crisis and 2023 Nationalist Congress Party split. Following the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis, Shiv Sena politician Eknath Shinde, along with 40 MLAs from his party, formed a government with the BJP with Shinde becoming the new chief minister.[5] After the 2023 Maharashtra political crisis, the Ajit Pawar faction of Nationalist Congress Party also joined the government.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, which was the first major election after the split of Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena, Maha Vikas Agadhi won 30 out of 48 seats while Mahayuti could only get 17 seats.[6] [7]
| Poll Event | Schedule | |
|---|---|---|
| Notification Date | TBD | |
| Last Date for filing nomination | TBD | |
| Scrutiny of nomination | TBD | |
| Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | TBD | |
| Date of poll | TBD | |
| Date of counting of Votes | TBD |
| Party | Flag | Symbols | Leader | Seats contested | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | Devendra Fadnavis | 120 | ||||
| Shiv Sena | Eknath Shinde | 85 | ||||
| Nationalist Congress Party | Ajit Pawar | 55 | ||||
| Maharashtra Navnirman Sena | Raj Thackeray | 10 | ||||
| Prahar Janshakti Party | Bachchu Kadu[8] | 06 | ||||
| Rashtriya Samaj Paksha | Mahadev Jankar[9] | 06 | ||||
| Jan Surajya Shakti | Vinay Kore[10] | 03 | ||||
| Republican Party of India (Athawale) | Ramdas Athawale | 03 | ||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | Imtiyaz Jaleel | |||||
| Bahujan Vikas Aghadi | Hitendra Thakur | TBD | ||||
| Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi | Prakash Ambedkar | |||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | Adv Sandeep Tajne | |||||
| Aam Aadmi Party | Arvind Kejriwal | TBD | ||||