2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election

The 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 February 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on 18 March 2017. VVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT.

2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election

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All 40 seats in Goa Legislative Assembly 21 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	82.56% ( 0.38%)
First party Second party   Leader Pratapsingh Rane Laxmikant Parsekar Party INC BJP Alliance UPA NDA Leader's seat Poriem Mandrem (lost) Last election 9 21 Seats won 17 13 Seat change 8 8 Popular vote 259,758 297,588 Percentage 28.4% 32.5% Swing 2.3% 2.1%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Sudin Dhavalikar Vijai Sardesai Party MGP GFP Alliance NDA NDA Leader's seat Marcaim Fatorda Last election 3 Did not exist Seats won 3 3 Seat change 3 Popular vote 103,290 31,900 Percentage 11.3% 3.5% Swing 4.6% 3.5%
Structure of the Goa Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election Laxmikant Parsekar BJP Elected Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar BJP

Background

The term of the Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017. The last election had resulted in a 21-seat majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Manohar Parrikar. Parrikar was elected Chief Minister. In 2014, he had to resign due to being nominated as Minister of Defence. Laxmikant Parsekar took oath as Chief Minister as Parrikar's successor.

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Date	BJP	INC	AAP	Others
HuffPost-CVoter	Feb 2017	15	14	2	8
The Week - Hansa	Jan 2017	17-19 (18)	11-13 (12)	2-4 (3)	3-5 (4)
Axis My India - India Today	Jan 2017	20-24 (22)	13-15 (14)	2-4 (3)	1-2 (1)
Axis My India - India Today	Oct 2016	17-21 (19)	13-16 (15)	1-3 (2)	3-5 (4)
Kautilya	Aug 2016	11	7	14	8
VDP Associates	July 2016	22	6	9	3
Election results	March 2017	13	17	0	10

Turnout

District	Electors	Polled	Turnout %
North Goa	540,785	458,074	84.71%
South Goa	570,907	459,758	80.53%

Results

← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	± %	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	2,97,588	32.5	2.2	13	8
	Indian National Congress (INC)	2,59,758	28.4	2.4	17	8
	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG)	1,03,290	11.3	4.6	3
	Independents (IND)	1,01,922	11.1	5.5	3	2
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	57,420	6.3	6.3	0
	Goa Forward Party (GFP)	31,900	3.5	3.5	3	3
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	20,916	2.3	1.8	1	1
	Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM)	10,745	1.2	1.2	0
	United Goans Party (UGP)	8,563	0.9	0.9	0
	Goa Vikas Party (GVP)	5,379	0.6	2.9	0	2
	Others	7,816	0.9	2.9	0
	None of the Above (NOTA)	10,919	1.2	1.2	—N/a
Total		9,16,216	100.00		40	±0
Valid votes		9,16,216	99.85
Invalid votes		1,416	0.15
Votes cast / turnout		9,17,832	82.56
Abstentions		1,93,860	17.44
Registered voters		11,11,692

Results by Constituency

The following is the list of winning MLAs in the election.

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Mandrem	Dayanand Sopte		INC	16,490	59.85	Laxmikant Parsekar		BJP	9,371	34.01	7,119	25.84
2	Pernem (SC)	Manohar Ajgaonkar		MAG	15,745	57.76	Rajendra Arlekar		BJP	9,715	35.64	6,030	22.12
3	Bicholim	Rajesh Patnekar		BJP	10,654	46.15	Naresh Sawal		MAG	9,988	43.27	666	2.88
4	Tivim	Nilkanth Halarnkar		INC	11,099	49.59	Kiran Kandolkar		BJP	10,304	46.04	795	3.55
5	Mapusa	Francis D'Souza		BJP	10,957	49.01	Vinod Fadke		MAG	4,129	18.47	6,828	30.54
6	Siolim	Vinoda Paliencar		GFP	10,189	43.76	Dayanand Mandrekar		BJP	8,748	37.57	1,441	6.19
7	Saligao	Jayesh Salgaonkar		GFP	9,735	46.67	Dilip Parulekar		BJP	7,598	36.43	2,137	10.24
8	Calangute	Michael Lobo		BJP	11,136	55.93	Joseph Robert Sequeira		INC	7,311	36.72	3,825	19.21
9	Porvorim	Rohan Khaunte		IND	11,174	57.36	Guruprasad R. Pawaskar		BJP	6,961	35.73	4,213	21.63
10	Aldona	Glenn Ticlo		BJP	9,405	43.93	Amarnath Panjikar		INC	4,949	23.12	4,456	20.81
11	Panaji	Sidharth Kuncalienker		BJP	7,924	46.17	Atanasio Monserrate		UGP	6,855	39.94	1,069	6.23
12	Taleigao	Jennifer Monserrate		INC	11,534	51.71	Dattaprasad Naik		BJP	8,679	38.91	2,855	12.80
13	St. Cruz	Antonio Fernandes		INC	6,202	28.30	Hemant Dinanath Golatkar		BJP	5,560	25.37	642	2.93
14	St. Andre	Francisco Silveira		INC	8,087	49.30	Ramrao Surya Naik Wagh		BJP	3,017	18.39	5,070	30.91
15	Cumbarjua	Pandurang Madkaikar		BJP	12,395	61.34	Xavier Fialho		INC	3,961	19.60	8,434	41.74
16	Maem	Pravin Zantye		BJP	12,430	52.38	Santosh Kumar Sawant		INC	7,456	31.42	4,974	20.96
17	Sanquelim	Pramod Sawant		BJP	10,058	43.04	Dharmesh Saglani		INC	7,927	33.92	2,131	9.12
18	Poriem	Pratapsingh Rane		INC	14,977	55.38	Vishwajit Krishnarao Rane		BJP	10,911	40.35	4,066	15.03
19	Valpoi	Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane		INC	13,493	54.05	Satyavijay Subrai Naik		BJP	7,815	31.31	5,678	22.74
20	Priol	Govind Gaude		IND	15,149	57.17	Deepak Dhavalikar		MAG	10,463	39.49	4,686	17.68
21	Ponda	Ravi Naik		INC	9,502	38.25	Sunil Desai		BJP	6,492	26.13	3,010	12.12
22	Siroda	Subhash Shirodkar		INC	11,156	45.67	Mahadev Naik		BJP	6,286	25.73	4,870	19.94
23	Marcaim	Sudin Dhavalikar		MAG	17,093	74.38	Pradeep Pundalik Shet		BJP	3,413	14.85	13,680	59.53
24	Mormugao	Milind Naik		BJP	8,466	49.25	Sankalp Amonkar		INC	8,326	48.44	140	0.81
25	Vasco-da-Gama	Carlos Almeida		BJP	8,765	33.93	Krishna V. Salkar		IND	7,414	28.70	1,351	5.23
26	Dabolim	Mauvin Godinho		BJP	7,234	41.80	Premanand Nanoskar		MAG	4,740	27.39	2,494	14.41
27	Cortalim	Alina Saldanha		BJP	5,666	24.34	Antonio Vas		IND	5,148	22.12	518	2.22
28	Nuvem	Wilfred D'sa		INC	9,967	47.00	Francisco Pacheco		GSRP	4,307	20.31	5,660	26.69
29	Curtorim	Aleixo Lourenco		INC	12,841	60.99	Arthur D’Silva		BJP	5,144	24.43	7,697	36.56
30	Fatorda	Vijai Sardesai		GFP	10,516	46.09	Damu G. Naik		BJP	9,182	40.24	1,334	5.85
31	Margao	Digambar Kamat		INC	12,105	54.82	Sharmad Raiturkar		BJP	7,929	35.91	4,176	18.91
32	Benaulim	Churchill Alemao		NCP	9,373	44.37	Royla Clarina Fernandes		AAP	4,182	19.79	5,191	24.58
33	Navelim	Luizinho Faleiro		INC	8,183	38.78	Avertano Furtado		IND	5,705	27.04	2,478	11.74
34	Cuncolim	Clafasio Dias		INC	6,415	28.91	Joaquim Alemao		IND	6,382	28.76	33	0.15
35	Velim	Filipe Nery Rodrigues		INC	10,417	44.77	Benjamin Silva		IND	5,164	22.19	5,253	22.58
36	Quepem	Chandrakant Kavlekar		INC	13,525	51.42	Prakash Velip		BJP	10,933	41.56	2,592	9.86
37	Curchorem	Nilesh Cabral		BJP	12,830	60.01	Shyam Satardekar		GSM	3,742	17.50	9,088	42.51
38	Sanvordem	Deepak Pauskar		MAG	14,575	58.13	Ganesh Gaonkar		BJP	9,354	37.31	5,221	20.82
39	Sanguem	Prasad Gaonkar		IND	7,636	33.98	Subhash Phal Desai		BJP	6,699	29.81	937	4.17
40	Canacona	Isidore Fernandes		INC	10,853	38.50	Vijay Pai Khot		BJP	8,745	31.02	2,108	7.48

By-elections Held

Constituency			Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Date	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
11	Panaji	11 March 2017	Manohar Parrikar		BJP	9,862	63.4	Girish Chodankar		INC	5,059	32.56	4,803
			The Panaji Assembly bypoll was held after Manohar Parrikar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Goa without being a sitting member of the Legislative Assembly.
11	Panaji	19 May 2019	Atanasio Monserrate		INC	8,748	52.33	Sidharth Kuncalienker		BJP	6,990	41.82	1,758
			The Panaji Assembly bypoll was held following the demise of the incumbent MLA and Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar.
19	Valpoi	11 March 2017	Vishwajit Rane		BJP	16,188	70.19	Roy Naik		INC	6,101	26.45	10,087
			The Valpoi Assembly bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MLA, Vishwajit Rane, after he switched parties.
5	Mapusa	19 May 2019	Joshua De Souza		BJP	11,167	49.74	Sudhir Rama Kandolkar		INC	10,016	44.61	1,151
			The Mapusa Assembly bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MLA, Francis D'Souza.
22	Siroda	19 May 2019	Subhash Shirodkar		BJP	10,661	44.12	Deepak Dhavalikar		MGP	10,585	43.81	76
			The Siroda Assembly bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MLA, Subhash Shirodkar, after switching parties.
1	Mandrem	19 May 2019	Dayanand Sopte		BJP	13,468	48.65	Jit Arolkar		IND	9,343	33.75	4,125
			The Mandrem Assembly bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MLA, Dayanand Sopte, after switching parties.

See also

• 2017 elections in India