List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly

The Goa Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the state of Goa on the west coast of India.^[2] Its seat is at Porvorim,^[3] and it sits for a term of five years unless it is dissolved early.^[4]: 72 Goa is India's smallest state by area and fourth-smallest by population.^[5]: 2 The Goa Legislative Assembly has existed since 1963. As of the 2022 election, it comprises 40 constituencies.^[6]

Goa Legislative Assembly
8th Goa Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
Seats	40
Elections
Voting system	First past the post[1]
Last election	2022
Meeting place
Goa State Legislative Assembly Complex, Porvorim, Bardez, Goa, India
Website
Goa Legislative Assembly

Location of Goa (circled in red) within India

The Constitution of India lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Since the transition of India from a United Kingdom dominion to an independent republic in 1950, the SCs and STs have been given reservation status—guaranteeing political representation^{[7][4]: 35, 137}—and after Goa was annexed from Portugal in 1961, the same principles applied to it as well.^[8] The 2011 census of India found that, within Goa, the population of the Scheduled Castes was 1.74% of the total.^[9]: 5 Accordingly, one constituency (Pernem) in the assembly is reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Castes.^[10]

The population of the ST community in Goa was only 566 in the 2001 census which is why no seats were reserved for them during the 2002 delimitation. Three communities (Kunbi, Gawda, and Velip) were added to the ST list in 2003, which brought the ST population to 149,275 (around 10% of the state's total) in the 2011 census. A bill was passed in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, in 2025 to ensure that a requisite number of seats are reserved in Goa's assembly (from the next election) to reflect this change.^[11]

History

Changes in the constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly over time

Year	Act/Order	Explanation	Total seats	SC-reserved seats	Election(s)
1961	Annexation of Goa	Goa was annexed from the Portuguese in 1961[12] and the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu was formed.[13]	30	0	1963,[14] 1967,[15] 1972[16]
1976	Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976[17][18]	One seat was reserved for members of the Scheduled Castes.[19]	30	1	1977,[20] 1980,[21] 1984[22]
1987	The Constitution (Fifty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1987[23]	The union territory was split, and Goa was made India's twenty-fifth state[13] The number of constituencies was increased to 40.	40	1	1989,[24] 1994,[25] 1999,[26] 2002,[27] 2007[28]
2008	Delimitation Commission Order, 2007[29][18]	There were no changes to the number of reserved seats.	40	1	2012,[30] 2017,[31] 2022[32][33]

Constituencies

The constituencies of Goa with their reservation status indicated by colour

Reservation

  Scheduled Castes (SC)

Constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly

No.	Name	Reserved for (SC/None)	District	Lok Sabha constituency	Electorate (2022)[32]
1	Mandrem	None	North Goa	North Goa	32,732
2	Pernem	SC			33,212
3	Bicholim	None			28,231
4	Tivim				29,132
5	Mapusa				29,294
6	Siolim				29,661
7	Saligao				27,576
8	Calangute				25,632
9	Porvorim				27,097
10	Aldona				28,994
11	Panaji				22,408
12	Taleigao				30,023
13	Santa Cruz				29,298
14	St. Andre				21,428
15	Cumbarjua				26,601
16	Maem				28,919
17	Sanquelim				27,919
18	Poriem				32,985
19	Valpoi				31,958
20	Priol				31,017
21	Ponda			South Goa	32,160
22	Siroda				29,678
23	Marcaim				28,275
24	Mormugao		South Goa		20,418
25	Vasco Da Gama				35,613
26	Dabolim				24,661
27	Cortalim				30,782
28	Nuvem				28,427
29	Curtorim				29,850
30	Fatorda				30,845
31	Margao				29,508
32	Benaulim				28,959
33	Navelim				28,892
34	Cuncolim				29,526
35	Velim				31,534
36	Quepem				33,080
37	Curchorem				27,484
38	Sanvordem				29,808
39	Sanguem				26,659
40	Canacona				34,246

See also

• List of constituencies of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• Daman and Diu Lok Sabha constituency
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha constituency