Charminar Assembly constituency

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Charminar
Constituency No. 66 for the Telangana Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country India
Region South India
State Telangana
District Hyderabad
LS constituency Hyderabad
Established1967
Total electors1,96,116
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
3rd Telangana Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party AIMIM
Elected year 2023

Charminar Assembly constituency is a constituency of Telangana Legislative Assembly, India. [1] It is one of 15 constituencies in the capital city of Hyderabad. It is part of Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency.

Contents

Syed Pasha Quadri won the assembly election from Charminar in 2014. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Extent of the constituency

The Assembly Constituency presently comprises the following neighbourhoods:

Neighbourhood
Charminar
Shah Ali Banda
Purana pul
Laad Bazaar
Moghalpura
Khilwat
Chaderghat (part)
Lal Darwaza (part)

Members of Legislative Assembly

ElectionMemberPolitical party
1967 Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi Independent
1972 Syed Hassan
1978 Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi
1983
1985 Mohd. Mukkarramuddin
1989 Vizarat Rasool Khan All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
1994 Asaduddin Owaisi
1999
2004 Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri
2009
2014
2018 Mumtaz Ahmed Khan
2023 Mir Zulfeqar Ali

Election results

2023

2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election: Charminar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIMIM Mir Zulfeqar Ali 53,903 52.05 −1.31
BJP Megha Rani Agarwal23,75023.76+2.72
INC Mohammed Mujeebullah Shareef10,89911.11−5.65
BRS Mohammad Salahuddin Lodhi8,8749.05+2.88
NOTA None of the Above 8370.85+0.24
Majority30,15328.29−4.03
Turnout 98,103
AIMIM hold Swing

2018

2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election: Charminar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIMIM Mumtaz Ahmed Khan [7] 53,808 53.36 −3.9
BJP T Uma Mahendra21,22221.04new
INC Mohammed Ghouse 16,89916.76+11.8
BRS Mohammad Salahuddin Lodhi6,2236.17
NOTA None of the Above 6140.61
Majority32,58632.32−0.7
Turnout 1,00,84950.32−5.9
AIMIM hold Swing

2014

2014 Telangana Legislative Assembly election: Charminar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIMIM Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri [8] 62,941 57.6
TDP M A Basith26,32624.1
TRS MirInayat Ali Qaudri8,2727.6
Majority36,61533.2
Turnout 1,10,21256.2
AIMIM hold Swing +2.97

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