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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
| popular_vote1 = '''7,809,533'''
| swing1 = {{increase}}26.16%
| turnout = '''53.30%''' ({{decrease}}14.29%)
| after_party = Indian National Congress (Indira)
| after_election = [[Abdul Rehman Antulay]]
| before_election = ''[[President's Rule]]''
| title = [[List of chief ministers of Maharashtra|Chief Minister]]
| next_year = 1985
| next_election = 1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
| election_date = July 1980
| seat_change2 = ''New Party''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}124
| percentage2 = 20.49%
| percentage1 = '''44.50%'''
| popular_vote2 = 3,596,582
| last_election2 = ''New Party''
| type = Legislative
| last_election1 = 62 seats
| seats2 = 47
| seats1 = '''186'''
| image2 = File:Sharad Govindrao Pawar.jpg
| leader2 = [[Sharad Pawar]]
| leader1 = [[A. R. Antulay]]
| party2 = Indian National Congress (U)
| party1 = Indian National Congress (Indira)
| seats_for_election = All 288 seats in the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 144
| previous_year = 1978
| previous_election = 1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| ongoing = No
| swing2 = ''New Party''
}}

'''Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1980''' was held in [[India]]n state of [[Maharashtra]] in 1980, to elect the 288 members to the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="pdf">{{cite web|url= |title=Key Highlights of General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India }}Key Highlights of General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra, [[Election Commission of India]] {{small|([http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1980/Statistical_Report_1980_Maharashtra.pdf])}}</ref>

==Results==
[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]] won majority seats in the Assembly, [[Abdul Rehman Antulay]] became [[Chief Minister of Maharashtra|Chief Minister]], Sharad Shankar Dighe became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, [[Sharad Pawar]] became Leader of the Opposition.<ref>{{cite web|url= |title=Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), [[National Informatics Centre]] }}Maharashtra Legislature, Mumbai (www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in), [[National Informatics Centre]] {{small|([http://www.legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL/Maharashtra.pdf])}}</ref>

{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1980<ref name= pdf />|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]||286||186||7,809,533||44.50%
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Urs)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Urs)]]||192||47||3,596,582||20.49%
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party (Secular)}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party (Secular)]]||111||17||1,511,042||8.61%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||145||14||1,645,734||9.38%
|-
| {{party color cell|Shiv Sena}}
|align="left"|[[Shiv Sena]]||8||0||726,338||4.14%
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||17||2||230,570||1.31%
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||10||2||162,651||0.93%
|-
|
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India (Khobragade)]]||42||1||239,286||1.36%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||612||10||1,409,177||8.03%
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||1537||288||17,548,655||
|-
|}

== List of winning candidates ==
The following is the list of candidates who won:<ref name="eci">{{cite web|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/PartyWiseResultS13.htm?st%3DS13 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103074352/http://eciresults.nic.in/PartyWiseResultS13.htm?st=S13 |archivedate=2014-11-03 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
|-
!Constituency Name || Member of Legislative Assembly || Political party || "align=right"| Votes polled
|-
| Achalpur || Sudan Deshmukh || CPI ||
|-
| Amgaon || Mahadevrao Shivankar || BJP ||
|-
|[[Baramati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baramati]] || [[Sharad Pawar]] || INC(U) || 54,919
|-
| Borivali || [[Ram Naik]] || BJP ||
|-
|[[Chandgad (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chandgad]] || V. K. Chavan Patil || INC(I) || 38,695
|-
| Chembur || Hashu Advani || BJP ||
|-
| Dadar || Sharayu Thakur || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Edlabad || [[Pratibha Patil]] || Congress(I) ||
|-
|[[Kalyan (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalyan]] || [[Ram Kapse]] || BJP || 39066
|-
|[[Kasba Peth (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kasba Peth]] || Arvind Lele || BJP || 28,851
|-
| Khamgaon || [[Pandurang Phundkar]] || BJP ||
|-
|Khetwadi || Premkumar Shankardatt Sharma || BJP ||
|-
| Kurla || Datta Samant || Independent ||
|-
| Mahim || Fred Pinto || Janata Party ||
|-
| Malkapur || Kisanlal Sancheti || BJP ||
|-
| Matunga || V Subramanyam || Congress(I) ||
|-
|[[Mumbadevi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mumbadevi]] || Nanubhai S. Patel (K. S. Patel) || BJP || 15643
|-
| Nagpur East || Satish Chaturvedi || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Nagpur West || Gev Avari || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Nagpur North || Suryakant Dongare || RPI (Khobragade) ||
|-
| Nagpur South || Banwarilal Purohit || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Nagpur Central || Mohd. Yakub Kamar Khan || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Nehrunagar || Babasaheb Bhosale || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Opera House|| Jaywantiben Mehta || BJP ||
|-
|[[Ratnagiri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ratnagiri]] || Kusum Abhyankar || BJP ||
|-
| [[Renapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Renapur]] || [[Gopinath Munde]] || BJP ||
|-
| Sangameshwar|| Jagannathrao Jadhav || JNP(JP) ||
|-
| Sangli || Shalinitai Patil || Congress(I) ||
|-
| Satara || Abhaysinh Raje Bhosle || Congress(I) ||
|-
|[[Sawantwadi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sawantwadi]] || Shivram Sawant Bhonsale || Congress (I) || 21,156 votes
|-
|[[Shahada (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Shahada]] || Annasaheb P. K. Patil || JNP(JP) || 32,102
|-
| Shivajinagar || Anna Joshi || BJP ||
|-
| Shrivardhan || Ravindra Raut (Later, Antulay in bypoll) || Congress (Indira) ||
|-
| Ulhasnagar || Sitaldas Khubchand Harchndani || BJP ||
|-
| Vile Parle || Pranlal Vora || Janata Party ||
|}

==References==
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{{Maharashtra State Assembly election}}

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