The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017.

[1][2] VVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT.

[2] The last election had resulted in a 21-seat majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Manohar Parrikar.

In 2014, he had to resign due to being nominated as Minister of Defence.

Laxmikant Parsekar took oath as Chief Minister as Parrikar's successor.