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.
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br /> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change in <br />vote % |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress |264 |215 | 80 |5,617,347 |51.22% | 2.56% |- | |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India |79 |15 | 16 |818,801 |7.47% | 0.81% |- | |align="left"|Praja Socialist Party |101 |9 | 24 |792,755 |7.23% | 1.74% |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India |56 |6 | 7 |647,390 |5.90% | 2.27% |- | |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% |-