1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election

Election in Indian union territory December 2021 December 2021 1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election India legislative Popular no 1967 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election 1967 9 December 1963 All 30 seats in the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly 16 50-70%https://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/10/archives/goa-turnout-high-in-first-election-voting-quiet-despite-issue-over.html Goa turnout high in first election; Voting Quiet Despite Issue Over Joining Indian State 9 December 1963 New York Times 28 December 2021 120px Dayanand_Bandodkar_(cropped).jpg 100 120 100 1 0 Dayanand Bandodkar Marcaim (bypoll) Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party New 40.13% New 14 Portrait_of_Dr._Jack_de_Sequeira.jpg 100 120 100 1 0 Jack de Sequeira Panaji United Goans Party New 29.69% New 12 Indian National Congress 120 100 Indian National Congress New 17.27% New 1 CM CM Office established Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Dayanand Bandodkar The first elections to the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly were held in December 1963, to elect members of the 30 constituencies, in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, India.https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/infrastructure_details.php?x_id=6 Article 2 - Goa After Liberation The 1st General election of liberated Goa, Daman and Diu, was held on 09/12/1963 ... Late Shri Dayanand Bandodkar became the first Chief Minister of Independent Goa, Daman and Diu. 28 December 2021 www.goavidhansabha.gov.in 28 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211228090130/https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/infrastructure_details.php?x_id=6 dead The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party won the most seats (fourteen), and its leader, Dayanand Bandodkar was appointed as the Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu.http://www.goainformation.org/html/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=41 Chief Ministers of Goa dead https://web.archive.org/web/20030824214302/http://www.goainformation.org/html/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=41 24 August 2003 Department of Information and Publicity, Government of Goa, Indiahttps://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/12/archives/promerger-party-leads-in-goa-vote.html Pro-Merger Party Leads in Goa Vote New York Times 11 December 1963 28 December 2021 The United Goans Party won 12 seats, three seats were won by Independents, whereas the Jawaharlal Nehru-led Indian National Congress only won one seat.https://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/Goa-1961-%E2%80%93-2021-Reviewing-and-recovering/183835 Herald: Goa 1961 – 2021 Reviewing and recovering 12 Dec 2021 Alexandre Moniz Barbosa 30 December 2021 O Heraldo Background After the Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, followed by the Annexation of Goa in 1961, the new union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu was established. Later, in 1963, after the passing of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, Goa, Daman and Diu was assigned a Legislative Assembly of thirty seats.https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/GovernmentUnionterritoriesAct1963_2.pdf Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 10 May 1963 30 December 2021 There shall be a Legislative Assembly for each Union territory ... The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of [the Union territory] to be filled by persons chosen by direct election shall be thirty. To facilitate the upcoming election, A. F. Couto was made the Chief Electoral Officer of the union territory on 19 August 1963.https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-35-SII-OG.pdf Office of the Chief Electoral Officer - Notification AJSM/IEIRO /63/1185913 19 August 1963 P. J. Fernandes 4 30 December 2021 The Delimitation Commission of India split up the Union territory into 30 constituencies; 28 in Goa and one each for Daman and Diu.https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-34-SI-SUG-1.pdf Delimitation Commission - Final Order No. 18 19 August 1963 J. L. Kapur 28 December 2021 On 3 October, it was announced that the Indian National Congress, Frente Popular and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) were allowed to have reserved electoral symbols,https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-39-SI-SUG-1.pdf Notification - 56/1/63(2) 3 October 1963 Prakash Narain 30 December 2021 followed on 24 October, by the United Goans Party (UGP).https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-42-SI-SUG-1.pdf Notification - No. 56/1/63 (2) 24 October 1963 Prakash Narain 30 December 2021 Election schedule EventDatehttps://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6465/6465-38-SII-SUG.pdf Election Commission - Notification No. 82/3/64 1 September 1964 A. F. Couto, Chief Electoral Officer 30 December 2021 Last Date for filing Nominations 11 November 1963 Date for scrutiny of nominations 13 November 1963 Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 16 November 1963 Date of poll9 December 1963 Date before which the election shall be completed 11 December 1963 Results File:India Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly 1963.svg Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 100117 14 United Goans Party 74081 12 Indian National Congress 43100 1 Frente Popular 4548 0 IndependentsIndependents included two candidates of the Praja Socialist Party 27648 3 10878 https://www.ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/PER/Assembly%20Election%20-%201963.pdf Assembly Election - 1963 Chief Election Commissioner of Goa 27 December 2021 30 August 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220830123222/https://www.ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/PER/Assembly%20Election%20-%201963.pdf dead Esteves Sarto Goa and its future 1966 https://books.google.com/books?id=oNQLAAAAIAAJ&q=Frentehttp://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/bitstream/handle/unigoa/3920/rodrigues_m_d_c_1996.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Opinion Poll in Goa - An evaluation of the method to settle the controversy Maria Do Ceu Rodrigues 1996 20 December 2021 Elected members #ConstituencyMemberhttps://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member_past_list.php?srch_mode=QUERY&cmbassemblyid=7 MLAs - First Legislative Assembly Of Goa, Daman & Diu www.goavidhansabha.gov.in 28 December 2021 28 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211228092302/https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member_past_list.php?srch_mode=QUERY&cmbassemblyid=7 dead Party 1 Pernem Kashinath Shetgaonkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 2 Mandrem Vijay Kamulkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 3 Siolim Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 4 Calangute John D'Souza United Goans Party 5 Aldona Orlando Sequeira Lobo United Goans Party 6 Mapusa Raghunath Tople Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 7 Tivim Shambu Palienkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 8 Bicholim Kusmakar Kadkade Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 9 Pale A. K. S. Usgaonkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 10 Sattari Jaisingrao Rane Praja Socialist Party 11 Panaji Jack Sequeira United Goans Party 12 Santa Cruz Joaquim L. Araujo United Goans Party 13 Santo Andre Teotonio Pereira United Goans Party 14 Sant Estevam Dattaram Chopdekar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 15 Marcaim Vasant VelingkarResigned for Dayanand Bandodkar Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 16 Ponda Gajanan Raikar Praja Socialist Party 17 Siroda Pundalik Naik Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 18 Sanguem Tony Fernandes Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 19 Canacona Ganba Desai Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 20 Quepem Dattaram Desai Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 21 Curchorem Vittal Karmali United Goans Party 22 Cuncolim Sebastiao Mazarelo United Goans Party 23 Benaulim Maurilio Furtado United Goans Party 24 Navelim Alvaro de Loyola Furtado United Goans Party 25 Margao Vasudeo Narayan Sarmalkar United Goans Party 26 Curtorim Enio Pimenta United Goans Party 27 Cortalim Luis Proto Barbosa United Goans Party 28 Marmagoa Urminda Mascarenhas United Goans Party 29 Daman Kalidas Patel Indian National Congress 30 Diu Mamdali Jiwani Independent (politician) Aftermath On 20 December 1963, Dayanand Bandodkar was sworn in as Chief Minister. His cabinet included only two other ministers, Vittal Karmali and Tony Fernandes.https://goaprintingpress.gov.in/downloads/6364/6364-51-SII-EOG-1.pdf Government of Goa, Daman and Diu - Administrator's Secretariat - Notification No. 1/ADM/63 20 December 1963 M.R. Sachdev 30 December 2021 Jack de Sequeira, of the UGP, was the first Leader of the Oppositionhttps://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/uploads/members/154_promember_JackSequeira77.pdf MLA Bio - Sequeira, Dr. Jack De, Janata 30 December 2021 www.goavidhansabha.gov.in and Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar was the first Speaker of the Assembly.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-was-his-life-but-angola-was-his-love/articleshow/55393548.cms Goa was his life, but Angola was his love TNN 13 November 2016 Gauree Malkarnekar Times of India 30 December 2021 By 1963, he was a prominent founding member of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, which formed liberated Goa’s first elected government, where Shirodkar served as the speaker. Since the party in government, the MGP, was in favour of merging the territory with Maharashtra, they precipitated the issue. This led to the 1967 Goa status referendum,https://books.google.com/books?id=7kUE7TV3ZWEC Goa: Into the Mainstream 2003 Abhinav Publications R.N. Sakshena 9788170170051 30 December 2021 where the voters rejected the merger and instead opted to remain a Union Territory.https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,843378,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081215143912/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843378,00.html live 15 December 2008 Goa: But Not Gone Time 27 January 1967 30 December 2021 Bypolls YearConstituencyReason for by-pollWinning candidateParty1964MarcaimResignation of V.C. VelingkerDayanand BandodkarMaharashtrawadi Gomantak PartySource:ECIhttp://www.eci.gov.in/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Details of Assembly By- Elections since 1952 (Year-Wise) Election Commission of India 22 December 2021 See also List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly References Goa 1963 1960 1963