List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra
List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra
Table:
Name	Portrait	Took Office	Left Office	Political Party	Chief Minister

Nasikrao Tirpude	March 5, 1978	July 18, 1978	Congress (I)	Vasantdada Patil

Sundarrao Solanke	July 18, 1978	February 17, 1980	INC	Sharad Pawar

Ramrao Adik	February 2, 1983	March 5, 1985	Indian National Congress	Vasantdada Patil

Gopinath Munde	-	March 14, 1995	October 11, 1999	Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Joshi

Narayan Rane

Chhagan Bhujbal	-	October 18, 1999	December 23, 2003	Nationalist Congress Party	Vilasrao Deshmukh

Sushilkumar Shinde

Vijaysingh Mohite-Patil	-	December 27, 2003	October 19, 2004

R R Patil	-	November 1, 2004	December 1, 2008	Vilasrao Deshmukh

Chhagan Bhujbal	-	December 8, 2008	November 10, 2010	Ashok Chavan

Ajit Pawar	-	November 10, 2010	September 25, 2012	Prithviraj Chavan

Vacant	September 25, 2012	October 25, 2012

Ajit Pawar	-	October 25, 2012	September 26, 2014	Nationalist Congress Party

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