Goa Election 2022 Date Announced: Check Polling Date, Time, Counting Day | FULL SCHEDULE

Goa Assembly Election 2022 Date Schedule: The election to the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly is due as the term of the current Goa Assembly will expire on March 15.

Goa Assembly Election Dates Announced

New Delhi: With the term of the current Goa Legislative Assembly expiring on March 15, the date for elections to the 40-member House has been announced.

Goa Assembly Election will be conducted in one phase, i.e. in the second phase of the Assembly Elections 2022. The date of polling in Goa is February 14, 2021.

The last date of nomination with be January 2021, while scrutiny of nominations will be done till January 29, 2022. The last date of nomination is January 31, 2022.

The counting of elections will be held for all states on March 10, 2022.

The final voter list for Goa Legislative Assembly Election 2022 was released earlier this week by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Goa Assembly Election 2022 — Polling Date, Schedule & Counting Day

The poll schedule for assembly elections 2022 in states including Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Punjab has been announced by the ECI. A total of 40 Assembly constituencies in Goa will be going to polls to elect the MLAs for the next Goa state assembly.

The schedule for the 2022 Goa Assembly Election is mentioned below with dates listed for the polls and counting of votes, according to ECI.

95% people of people in Goa have been vaccinated, said CEC Sushil Chandra during the press conference announcing the elections. 

Goa Legislative Assembly Election 2017

Goa elections were last held on February 4, 2017, with Congress emerging as the single largest party with 17 MLAs. The election results threw up a hung assembly in the state with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 13 seats in the 40-member assembly.

BJP managed to form the government with support from regional parties and independents.

However, the BJP formed a government forging an alliance with the support of the Goa Forward Party (GFP), Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), and two Independents, to reach the magic figure of 21 in the 40-member house.

At present, BJP has 27 MLAs, Congress four, Goa Forward Party has three, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and MGP have one each and there are three Independents. The Congress has currently four MLAs in Goa after 13 of them joined the ruling BJP and one resigned as MLA to join the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in October 2021.

Goa Legislative Assembly Election - Pre Poll Alliance

Goa will witness one of the fierce electoral battles with at least eight national and regional parties in the fray for the upcoming election. The ruling BJP, contesting the first election in the state following the death of four-time chief minister Manohar Parrikar, has its task cut out in the face of an aggressive Trinamool Congress, a new entrant, and Arvind Kejriwal's AAP.

The Congress party last month announced its first list of eight candidates for the upcoming state assembly elections in Goa.

In a tweet, the party announced the list of candidates for the assembly seats of Mapusa, Taleigao, Ponda, Marmugao, Curtorim, Margao, Cuncolim, and Quepem.

The first list of candidates selected by the Central Election Committee for the forthcoming elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa pic.twitter.com/rOmwRRfARL

— INC Sandesh (@INCSandesh) December 16, 2021

Former chief minister Digambar Vasant Kamat has been fielded from the Margao constituency, which he won in the 2017 assembly polls. Another sitting MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco will contest from his current seat of Curtorim.

As the battlefield is getting ready for state Assembly elections, it is going to wait and watch for Congress as the party will be leaving no stone unturned to come back in power after emerging as the single largest party in state elections in 2017.