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{{Short description|Legislative Assembly election in Goa, Daman and Diu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = legislative
| vote_type = Popular 
| ongoing = no
| party_colour =
| party_name =
| alliance_name =
| next_election = 1967 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1967
| election_date = ''9 December 1963''
| seats_for_election = All 30 seats in the [[Goa Legislative Assembly|Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 16
| registered =
| turnout = 50-70%<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/10/archives/goa-turnout-high-in-first-election-voting-quiet-despite-issue-over.html |title=Goa turnout high in first election; Voting Quiet Despite Issue Over Joining Indian State |date=9 December 1963 |work=[[New York Times]] |access-date= 28 December 2021}}</ref>
| image_size = 120px

| image1 = Dayanand Bandodkar (cropped).jpg
| leader1 = [[Dayanand Bandodkar]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Marcaim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Marcaim]] (bypoll)
| party1 = Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
| seats_before1 = New
| popular_vote1= 40.13%
| seat_change1 = New
| seats1 = 14

| image2 = Jack de Sequeira.jpg
| leader2 = [[Jack de Sequeira]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Panaji (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Panaji]]
| party2 = United Goans Party
| seats_before2 = New
| popular_vote2= 29.69%
| seat_change2 = New
| seats2 = 12

| image3 = Two oxen variante.svg
| leader3 =
| leaders_seat3 =
| party3 = Indian National Congress
| seats_before3 = New
| popular_vote3= 17.27%
| seat_change3 = New
| seats3 = 1


| title = [[Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu|CM]]
| after_party = Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
| after_election = [[Dayanand Bandodkar]]
}}

The first elections to the '''[[Goa Legislative Assembly|Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly]]''' were held in December 1963, to elect members of the 30 constituencies, in the [[Union territory]] of [[Goa, Daman and Diu]], India.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/infrastructure_details.php?x_id=6 |title=Article 2 - Goa After Liberation |quote=The 1st General election of liberated Goa, Daman and Diu, was held on 09/12/1963 ... Late Shri Dayanand Bandodkar became the first Chief Minister of Independent Goa, Daman and Diu. |access-date=28 December 2021 |website=www.goavidhansabha.gov.in}}</ref>

The [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] won the most seats (fourteen), and its leader, [[Dayanand Bandodkar]] was appointed as the [[Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goainformation.org/html/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=41 |title=Chief Ministers of Goa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030824214302/http://www.goainformation.org/html/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=41 |archive-date=24 August 2003 |publisher=Department of Information and Publicity, Government of Goa, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/12/archives/promerger-party-leads-in-goa-vote.html |title=Pro-Merger Party Leads in Goa Vote |work=[[New York Times]] |date=11 December 1963 |access-date= 28 December 2021}}</ref> The [[United Goans Party]] won 12 seats, three seats were won by [[Independent (politician)|Independents]], whereas the [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]-led [[Indian National Congress]] only won one seat.<ref name=result1963/><ref name=heraldgoa>{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/Goa-1961-%E2%80%93-2021-Reviewing-and-recovering/183835 |title=Herald: Goa 1961 – 2021 Reviewing and recovering |date=12 Dec 2021 |author=Alexandre Moniz Barbosa |access-date= 30 December 2021 |publisher=[[O Heraldo]]}}</ref>

==Background==
After the [[Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli]] in 1954, followed by the [[Annexation of Goa]] in 1961, the new union territory of [[Goa, Daman and Diu]] was established. Later, in 1963, after the passing of the ''Government of Union Territories Act, 1963'', Goa, Daman and Diu was assigned a [[Legislative Assembly]] of thirty seats.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/GovernmentUnionterritoriesAct1963_2.pdf |title=Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 |date=10 May 1963 |access-date= 30 December 2021 |quote=There shall be a Legislative Assembly for each Union territory ... The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of [the Union territory] to be filled by persons chosen by direct election shall be thirty.}}</ref>

To facilitate the upcoming election, A. F. Couto was made the Chief Electoral Officer of the union territory on 19 August 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-35-SII-OG.pdf |title=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer - Notification AJSM/IEIRO /63/1185913 |date=19 August 1963 |author=P. J. Fernandes |page=4 |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref> The [[Delimitation Commission of India]] split up the Union territory into 30 constituencies; 28 in Goa and one each for Daman and Diu.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-34-SI-SUG-1.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission - Final Order No. 18 |date=19 August 1963 |author=J. L. Kapur |access-date= 28 December 2021}}</ref> On 3 October, it was announced that the [[Indian National Congress]], [[Frente Popular (Goa)|Frente Popular]] and the [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] (MGP) were allowed to have reserved electoral symbols,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-39-SI-SUG-1.pdf |title=Notification - 56/1/63(2) |date=3 October 1963 |author=Prakash Narain |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref> followed on 24 October, by the [[United Goans Party]] (UGP).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-42-SI-SUG-1.pdf |title=Notification - No. 56/1/63 (2) |date=24 October 1963 |author=Prakash Narain |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref>

==Election Schedule==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!'''Event'''
!'''Date'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6465/6465-38-SII-SUG.pdf |title=Election Commission - Notification No. 82/3/64 |date=1 September 1964 |author=A. F. Couto, Chief Electoral Officer |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref>
|-
| Last Date for filing Nominations
| 11 November 1963
|-
| Date for scrutiny of nominations
| 13 November 1963
|-
| Last date for withdrawal of candidatures
| 16 November 1963
|-
| Date of poll
|'''9 December 1963'''
|-
| Date before which the election shall be completed
| 11 December 1963
|-
|}

==Results==
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly 1963.svg]]
|party1=[[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]]|votes1=100117|seats1=14
|party2=[[United Goans Party]]|votes2=74081|seats2=12
|party4=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes4=43100|seats4=1
|party5=[[Frente Popular (Goa)|Frente Popular]]|votes5=4548|seats5=0
|party21=Independents{{efn|Independents included two candidates of the [[Praja Socialist Party]]}}|votes21=27648|seats21=3
|invalid=10878
|electorate=
|source=<ref name=result1963>{{cite web |url=https://www.ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/PER/Assembly%20Election%20-%201963.pdf |title=Assembly Election - 1963 |publisher=Chief Election Commissioner of Goa |access-date=27 December 2021}}</ref><ref name=Esteves1966>{{cite book |last=Esteves |first=Sarto |title=Goa and its future |date=1966 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oNQLAAAAIAAJ&q=Frente}}</ref><ref name=rodrigues1996>{{cite thesis |url=http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/bitstream/handle/unigoa/3920/rodrigues_m_d_c_1996.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Opinion Poll in Goa - An evaluation of the method to settle the controversy |author=Maria Do Ceu Rodrigues |date=1996 |access-date=20 December 2021 }}</ref>
}}
{{noteslist}}

==Elected Members==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Constituency
!Member<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member_past_list.php?srch_mode=QUERY&cmbassemblyid=7 |title=MLAs - First Legislative Assembly Of Goa, Daman & Diu |website=www.goavidhansabha.gov.in |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>
!colspan=2|Party
|-
| 1 || [[Pernem (Goa Assembly constituency)|Pernem]] || Kashinath Shetgaonkar
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 2 || [[Mandrem (Goa Assembly constituency)|Mandrem]] || Vijay Kamulkar
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 3 || [[Siolim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Siolim]] || [[Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar]]
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 4 || [[Calangute (Goa Assembly constituency)|Calangute]] || John M. D'Souza
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 5 || [[Aldona (Goa Assembly constituency)|Aldona]] || Orlando Sequeira Lobo
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 6 || [[Mapusa (Goa Assembly constituency)|Mapusa]] || Raghunath Tople
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 7 || [[Tivim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Tivim]] || Shambu Palienkar
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 8 || [[Bicholim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Bicholim]] || Kusmakar Kadkade
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 9 || [[Pale (Goa Assembly constituency)|Pale]] || [[A. K. S. Usgaonkar]]
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 10 || Satari || Jaisingrao V. Rane
| {{Full party name with color|Praja Socialist Party}}
|-
| 11 || [[Panaji (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Panaji]] || [[Jack Sequeira]]
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 12 || [[St. Cruz (Goa Assembly constituency)|Santa Cruz]] || Joaquim L. Araujo
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 13 || [[St. Andre (Goa Assembly constituency)|Santo Andre]] || Teotonio Pereira
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 14 || [[Cumbarjua (Goa Assembly constituency)|Sant Estevam]] || Dattaram Chopdekar
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 15 || [[Marcaim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Marcaim]] || Vasant Velingkar{{efn|Resigned for [[Dayanand Bandodkar]]}}
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 16 || [[Ponda (Goa Assembly constituency)|Ponda]] || Gajanan Raikar
| {{Full party name with color|Praja Socialist Party}}
|-
| 17 || [[Siroda (Goa Assembly constituency)|Siroda]] || Pundalik Naik
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 18 || [[Sanguem (Goa Assembly constituency)|Sanguem]] || Tony Fernandes
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 19 || [[Canacona (Goa Assembly constituency)|Canacona]] || Ganba Desai
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 20 || [[Quepem (Goa Assembly constituency)|Quepem]] || Dattaram Desai
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 21 || [[Curchorem (Goa Assembly constituency)|Curchorem]] || Karmali Vitthal Subrai
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 22 || [[Cuncolim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Cuncolim]] || Sebastiao Mazarello
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 23 || [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim]] || Maurilio Furtado
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 24 || [[Navelim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Navelim]] || [[Alvaro de Loyola Furtado]]
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 25 || [[Margao (Goa Assembly constituency)|Margao]] || Vasudev Sarmalkar
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 26 || [[Curtorim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Curtorim]] || Enio Pimenta
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 27 || [[Cortalim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Cortalim]] || [[Luis Proto Barbosa]]
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 28 || [[Mormugao (Goa Assembly constituency)|Marmagoa]] || Urminda Lima Leitao
| {{Full party name with color|United Goans Party}}
|-
| 29 || Daman || Kalidas Patel
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 30 || Diu || Mamdali Jiwani
| {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
|}
{{noteslist}}

==Aftermath==
On 20 December 1963, Dayanand Bandodkar was sworn in as Chief Minister. His cabinet included only two other ministers, Vitthal Subrai and Tony Fernandes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-51-SII-EOG-1.pdf |title=Government of Goa, Daman and Diu - Administrator's Secretariat - Notification No. 1/ADM/63 |date=20 December 1963 |author=M.R. Sachdev |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref> Jack de Sequeira, of the UGP, was the first Leader of the Opposition<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/uploads/members/154_promember_JackSequeira77.pdf |title=MLA Bio - Sequeira, Dr. Jack De, Janata |access-date= 30 December 2021 |website=www.goavidhansabha.gov.in}}</ref> and [[Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar]] was the first Speaker of the Assembly.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-was-his-life-but-angola-was-his-love/articleshow/55393548.cms |title=Goa was his life, but Angola was his love |agency=TNN |date=13 November 2016 |author=Gauree Malkarnekar |publisher=[[Times of India]] |access-date= 30 December 2021 |quote=By 1963, he was a prominent founding member of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, which formed liberated Goa’s first elected government, where Shirodkar served as the speaker.}}</ref>

Since the party in government, the MGP, was in favour of merging the territory with Maharashtra, they precipitated the issue. This led to the [[1967 Goa status referendum]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kUE7TV3ZWEC |title=Goa: Into the Mainstream |date=2003 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |author=R.N. Sakshena |isbn=9788170170051 |access-date= 30 December 2021}}</ref> where the voters rejected the merger and instead opted to remain a Union Territory.<ref name="konk">{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,843378,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215143912/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843378,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=15 December 2008 |title=Goa: But Not Gone |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=27 January 1967 |access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref>

==Bypolls==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Constituency
!Reason for by-poll
!Winning candidate
!colspan=2|Party
|-
|1964
|[[Marcaim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Marcaim]]
|Resignation of V.C. Velingker
|[[Dayanand Bandodkar]]
|{{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
|-class="sortbottom"
|colspan=6|Source:ECI<ref name=byelections>{{cite web |url=http://www.eci.gov.in/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls |title=Details of Assembly By- Elections since 1952 (Year-Wise) |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref>
|-
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly]]

==References==
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