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2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election

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All 40 seats of the Goa Legislative Assembly 21 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	81.89% ( 0.67 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Pramod Sawant Digambar Kamat Party BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Leader since 2019 2007 Leader's seat Sanquelim Margao Last election 32.5%, 13 seats 28.4%, 17 seats Seats won 20 11 Seat change 7 6 Popular vote 316,573 222,948 Percentage 33.3% 23.5% Swing 0.8 pp 4.9 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Amit Palekar Mahua Moitra Party AAP AITC Alliance - AITC+ Leader since 2022 2021 Leader's seat St. Cruz (lost) - Last election 6.3%, 0 seat Did not contest Seats won 2 0 Seat change 2 Popular vote 64,354 49,480 Percentage 6.8% 5.2% Swing 0.5 pp 5.2 pp
Chief Minister before election Pramod Sawant BJP Elected Chief Minister Pramod Sawant BJP

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Goa on 14 February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022.

Background

The tenure of Goa Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 15 March 2022. The previous assembly elections were held in February 2017 to elect the members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly. After the election, a coalition of Bharatiya Janata Party, Goa Forward Party and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party formed the state government, with Manohar Parrikar becoming the Chief Minister.

After the death of Manohar Parrikar, Pramod Sawant was sworn in as the Chief Minister on 19 March 2019.

Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 8 January 2022.

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Pramod Sawant		40	37	3

  United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Indian National Congress			Digambar Kamat		37	35	2
2.	Goa Forward Party			Vijai Sardesai		3	3	0

  Aam Aadmi Party

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Aam Aadmi Party			Amit Palekar		39	36	3

  All India Trinamool Congress+

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	All India Trinamool Congress			Mahua Moitra		26	22	4
2.	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party			Sudin Dhavalikar		13	13	0

  Nationalist Congress Party+

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Nationalist Congress Party			Jose Philip D'Souza		13	13	0
2.	Shiv Sena			Jitesh Kamat		10	8	2

Others

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
1.	Revolutionary Goans Party			Manoj Parab		38	36	2
2.	Goencho Swabhiman Party			Swapnesh Sherlekar		4	3	1

Candidates

AAP CM candidate Amit Palekar contested from St. Cruz. Former CM and AITC leader Churchill Alemao contested from Benaulim. BJP CM candidate and incumbent CM Pramod Sawant contested from Sanquelim. Former CM and INC leader Digambar Kamat contested from Margao. Former CM Laxmikant Parsekar contested from Mandrem as an independent candidate after he was denied ticket by BJP.

1. Mahua Moitra serves as the MP from Krishnanagar
2. AAP didn't field a candidate against Independent candidate Dr. Chandrakant Shetye in Bicholim

Campaign

BJP

BJP has launched a movement to collect suggestions, ‘Sankalp Peti’ from all across the state to prepare their manifesto for the Assembly Election. The Sankalp Peti, which is flagged off on December 21, will travel across the state till January 5.

INC

INC released its manifesto on 4 February 2022. Some of the key promises made are

• Launching NYAY scheme which promises annual income transfer of rupees 72 thousand to each of the poorest families in the state
• Cap the Petrol and Diesel prices at rupees 80 per litre
• 30 percent reservation for women in a government job
• Resumption of mining in a sustainable way
• Congress will resist the three Linear projects and will not allow Goa to become a coal hub
• The Congress will enact a law providing protection to the land rights of locals

AAP

Arvind Kejriwal gave Guarantees for Goans in his poll campaign based on development and positivity:

• Jobs for Goans
• 1 job per family for unemployed, or ₹3000/month until then
• 80% private jobs reserved for Goans
• ₹5000/month for unemployed in tourism due to COVID
• ₹5000/month for those affected by mining ban
• Skill University
• Better health infrastructure
• Free and Quality education to all
• Form the first corruption free government of Goa

AAP decided to carry out every project with citizen's consent. AAP has also promised to increase the remuneration provided to women in Goa under a state-sponsored scheme and also promised financial assistance to women not covered under it.

AITC

• Proposed scheme Griha Laxmi Card where ₹5000 will be transferred to a woman in every family of the state. AITC campaign leader Mahua Moitra claimed that 6-8% of total state budget is possible, putting cash in hand and liquidity in system is needed in the depressed situation after COVID-19 pandemic.
• Proposed scheme Yuva Shakti Card which will be a collateral-free pre-approved credit card with a limit up to ₹20 lakh at 4% interest rate to Goan youth in the age group of 18–45 years. This card will allow Goans to take need-based credit for higher education, skill development and starting businesses.
• In proposed scheme Majhe Ghar, Malki Hak Scheme AITC has announced that 50,000 such homeless families, who have been living in Goa since 198 or earlier, will be given subsidized housing. Mamata Banerjee's party has also promised to hand over the land lease to the residents within 250 days of the formation of the AITC-MGP coalition government in Goa. A team of 3,000 volunteers will conduct door-to-door surveys after which 50,000 real homeless families will be found. The AITC-MGP alliance claimed the proposed plan will benefit 80 percent of the residents.
• Proposed scheme Vahan Mitra Scheme offers a subsidy of ₹10,000 for 30,000 taxi drivers and owners.

Poll predictions

Opinion polls

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Exit polls

The Election Commission banned the media from publishing exit polls between 7 AM on 10 February 2022 and 6:30 PM on 7 March 2022. Violation of the directive would be punishable with two years of imprisonment. Accordingly, these exit polls were published in the evening of 7 March 2022.

Voter turnout

Source:

Results

Results by alliance and party

Vote Share

Seat Share

Alliance		Party		Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	316,573	33.31%	0.8	40	20	7
	UPA		Indian National Congress	222,948	23.46%	4.9	37	11	6
			Goa Forward Party	17,477	1.84%	1.7	3	1	2
			Total	240,425	25.3%	3.1	40	12	8
	AITC+		All India Trinamool Congress	49,480	5.21%	5.2	26	0
			Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	72,269	7.6%	3.7	13	2	1
			Total	121,749	12.81%	1.5	39	2	1
None			Revolutionary Goans Party	93,255	9.81%	9.45	38	1	1
			Aam Aadmi Party	64,354	6.77%	0.5	39	2	2
	NCP+		Nationalist Congress Party	10,846	1.14%	1.2	13	0	1
			Shiv Sena	1,726	0.18%	0.1	10	0
			Total	12,572	1.32%	1.0	23	0	1
None			Independents	88,902	9.35%			3
			Others	1,986	0.21%			0
			NOTA	10,629	1.12%
Total
Valid votes
Invalid votes
Votes cast/ turnout
Abstentions
Registered voters

Results by district

Results by constituency

Government Formation

BJP became the single largest party with 20 seats in the hung assembly and decided to take support from 2 independents and MGP.

In September 2022, 8 out of 11 MLAs from Congress joined BJP, increasing the strength of BJP to 28 seats in the Goa Legislative Assembly.

See also

• 2022 elections in India
• Elections in Goa

Notes

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