The 1962 Maharashtra State Assembly election was held for the second term of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. A total of 264 seats were contested. The Indian National Congress won 215 of the 264 seats.
List of participating political parties
Results
Party results
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!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" |Seat change
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change in vote %
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|align="left"|Indian National Congress
|264
|215
| 80
|5,617,347
|51.22%
| 2.56%
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|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India
|79
|15
| 16
|818,801
|7.47%
| 0.81%
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|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party
|101
|9
| 24
|792,755
|7.23%
| 1.74%
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|align="left"|Communist Party of India
|56
|6
| 7
|647,390
|5.90%
| 2.27%
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|align="left"|Republican Party of India
|66
|3
| 10 (from SCF seats) |589,653 |5.38% | 0.85% (from SCF vote share) |- | |align="left"|Socialist Party |14 |1 | 1 |54,764 |0.50% | 0.50% (New Party) |- | |align="left"| Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 127 | 0 | 4 | 548,097 | 5.00% | 3.44% |- | | 9 | 0 | (New Party) | 48,484 | 0.44% | 0.44% (New Party) |- | |5 |0 |1 |12,109 |0.11% | 0.32% |- | |align="left"|Independents |437 |15 | 19 |1,836,095 |16.74% | 7.03% |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1161||264||||10,966,279||60.36%|| 7.20% |- |}