Melghat Assembly constituency

Melghat
Constituency No. 41 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Amravati
Lok Sabha constituency	Amravati
Established	1962
Reservation	ST
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kewalram Tulsiram Kale
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Melghat Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the eight which are located in the Amravati district. It is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidate.

It is a part of the Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies, viz. Badnera Amravati, Teosa, Daryapur (SC), and Achalpur.

The remaining two Dhamangaon Railway and Morshi constituencies are part of Wardha (Lok Sabha constituency) in adjoining Wardha district. ^[1]

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 41 Melghat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: 1. Dharni Tehsil, 2. Chikhaldara Tehsil. 3.Achalpur Tehsil (Part), Revenue Circle –Paratwada and Pathrot of the district. ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1962	Mamraj Khandelwal		Independent
1967	Dayaram Nanu Patel		Indian National Congress
1968^	Ramu Patel
1972
1978			Indian National Congress (I)
1980	Narayan Nanu Patel
1985	Ramu Patel		Indian National Congress
1990	Tulshiram Kale
1995	Patlya Langda Mavaskar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Rajkumar Dayaram Patel
2004
2009	Kewalram Kale		Indian National Congress
2014	Prabhudas Bhilawekar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Rajkumar Dayaram Patel		Prahar Janshakti Party
2024	Kewalram Kale		Bharatiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Melghat ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kewalram Tulsiram Kale	145,978	65.72%	41.97
	INC	Dr. Hemant Nanda Chimote	39,119	17.61%	2.1
	PHJSP	Rajkumar Patel	25,281	11.38%	35.1
	NOTA	None of the above	2,462	1.11%	0.45
Majority			106,859	48.11%	25.38
Turnout			222,129
	BJP gain from PHJSP		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Melghat ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PHJSP	Rajkumar Patel	84,569	46.48%
	BJP	Ramesh Mawaskar	43,207	23.75%
	NCP	Kewalram Tulsiram Kale	35,863	19.71%
	NOTA	None of the above	2,835	1.56%
Majority			41,362	22.73%
Turnout			181,941	65.56%
	PHJSP gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Melghat
• Dharni, Amravati

Notes

1. "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
2. "Schedule – XVII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule XVII Maharashtra, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
3. Election Commission of India (23 November 2024). "Maharastra Assembly Election Results 2024 - Melghat". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
4. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 2 February 2022.

21°21′N77°29′E / 21.35°N 77.49°E / 21.35; 77.49