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. Its seat is at Porvorim, and it sits for a term of five years unless it is dissolved early. Goa is India's smallest state by area and fourth-smallest by population. The Goa Legislative Assembly has existed since 1963. As of the 2022 Goa [Legislative Assembly election|2022 election], it comprises 40 constituencies.
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—and after Goa was annexed from Portugal in 1961, the same principles applied to it as well. The 2011 census of India found that, within Goa, the population of the Scheduled Castes was 1.74% of the total. Accordingly, one constituency in the assembly is reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Castes.
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 were added to the ST list in 2003, which brought the ST population to 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 to reflect this change.