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2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election

election in Indian state

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16249767 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elections in the Indian state of Goa took place on 2 June 2007. Counting of votes began on 5 June, and the election process was completed by 8 June.

Results

Results by constituency

By-elections

Government formation

Indian National Congress in alliance with Nationalist Congress Party and Save Goa Front formed the government.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election” as election in Indian state. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Legislative, Assembly and election can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as election in Indian state. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16249767. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.