Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. ^[1]

Overview

Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal constituency is one of the eight Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Sangli district. It comprises part of Tasgaon tehsil and the entire Kavathe Mahankal tehsil of the district. ^[2]

Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal is part of the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in this district, namely Miraj, Sangli, Palus-Kadegaon, Khanapur and Jat. ^[3]

This constituency comes under a drought prone area where every year farmers are facing water shortages. The famous grape growing area comes under this zone. There is overwhelming demand for canal water from the Mhaishal canal water project but still farmers are waiting for the release of water.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  INC     Independent     NCP   

Election		Member	Party
	1962	Dhondiram Yeshwant Patil	Indian National Congress
	1967	Babasaheb Gopalrao Patil	Indian National Congress
	1972	Babasaheb Gopalrao Patil	Indian National Congress
	1978	Dinkarrao Krishnaji Patil	Indian National Congress
	1980	Dinkarrao Krishnaji Patil	Independent
	1985	Dinkarrao Krishnaji Patil	Indian National Congress
	1990	R. R. Patil	Indian National Congress
	1995	R. R. Patil	Indian National Congress
	1999	R. R. Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
	2004	R. R. Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
Major boundary changes [4]
	2009	R. R. Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
	2014	R. R. Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
	2015 (By-polls)	Sumantai R Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
	2019	Sumantai R Patil	Nationalist Congress Party

Election Results

Assembly elections 1999

1999 Maharashtra State Assembly election: 273. Tasgaon ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	R. R. Patil	55,166	48.67
	INC	Sanjay (Kaka) Ramchandra Patil	51,669	45.59
	SHS	Sanjay Dattu Patil	4,119	03.63
	Independent	Balasaheb Yashwant Kulkarni	2,157	01.90
	Independent	Ravaso Rghunath Patil	227	0.20
Majority			3,497	03.09
Turnout			1,13,338	79.16
	NCP hold		Swing

Assembly elections 2004

2004 Maharashtra State Assembly election: 273. Tasgaon ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	R. R. Patil	70,483	50.36
	Independent	Sanjay (Kaka) Ramchandra Patil	64,179	45.86
	SHS	Dr. Prataprao (Nana) Pandharinath Patil	2,211	01.57
	PWP	Popat Narayan Sankapal	976	0.69
	Independent	Sanjaykaka Jagannath Patil	787	0.56
	BSP	Dattatraya Pandurang Pandhare	713	0.50
	Independent	Sandip Anada Kate	277	0.19
	Independent	Sanjay Namdev Mane	166	0.11
	Independent	Baberao Babasaheb Patil	162	0.11
Majority			6,304	04.50
Turnout			1,39,954	79.89
	NCP hold		Swing

Assembly elections 2009

2009 Maharashtra State Assembly election: 287. Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	R. R. Patil	99,109	62.51
	SHS	Dinkar Balaso Patil	33,936	21.40
	Independent	Colonel Bhagatsing Deshmukh (Rtd)	9,736	01.69
	Independent	Swapnil Dilip Patil	5,310	03.35
	Independent	Sachin Shirishkumar Patil	3,615	02.28
	BSP	Ulhas Namdev Bhandare	2,351	01.48
	Independent	Rajendra Uttamrao Patil	1,251	0.79
	Swatantra Bharat Paksh	Ashok Dnyanu Mane	1,148	0.72
	Independent	Subhash Sopan Jadhav	1,086	0.68
	Independent	Nanaso Anandrao Shinde	533	0.34
	Independent	Vijay Jalindar Patil	468	0.30
Majority			65,173	41.11
Turnout			1,58,543	63.44
	NCP hold		Swing

Assembly elections 2014

2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election:Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	R. R. Patil	1,08,310	52.70
	BJP	Ajitrao Shankarrao Ghorpade	85,900	41.79
	INC	Suresh Shendage	3,473	01.69
	SHS	Mahesh Yashawant Kharade	1,967	0.96
	BSP	Shankar Martand Mane	1,272	0.62
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,153	0.56
	Independent	Prof. Sukumar Dattu Kamble	906	0.44
	MNS	Sudhakar Dnyaneshwar Khade	657	0.32
	Independent	Dr. Anandrao Dnyanu Pawar	450	0.22
	Independent	Sachin Shirishkumar Patil	424	0.21
	Independent	Sambhaji Dattatray Mali	389	0.19
	Independent	Subhash Shankar Mali	192	0.09
	Independent	Prof. Suryakant Bapuso Bodhale	184	0.09
	Independent	Balaso Sitaram Pawar	147	0.07
	Independent	Bhikajirao Damodar Kore	109	0.05
Majority			22,410	10.96
Turnout			2,05,533	75.77
	NCP hold		Swing

2015 By-election

Bye-election, 2015: Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Suman Patil	1,31,236	85.52
	Independent	Adv. Swapnil Diliprao Patil	18,273	11.90
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,495	0.97
	Prabuddha Republican Party	Prashant Dnyaneshwar Gangavane	1,062	0.69
	Independent	Satish Bhupal Sanadi	657	0.42
	Independent	Dr. Anandrao Dnyanu Pawar	610	0.39
	Independent	Dhananjay Shivaji Desai	608	0.39
	Independent	Alankruta Abhijeet Awade - Bichukale	444	0.28
	Independent	Dhananjay Shivaji Desai	369	0.24
	Independent	Vijay Shankar Patil	193	0.12
Majority			1,12,963	73.61
Turnout			1,53,452	56.98
	NCP hold		Swing

Assembly elections 2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election  : Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Suman Patil	128,371	63.78
	SHS	Ajitrao Shankarrao Ghorpade	65,839	32.71
Majority			62,532
Turnout
	NCP hold		Swing

See also

• Tasgaon
• Kavathe-Mahankal
• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha

References

1. "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 275.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 278.
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
5. 1999 Election Commission of India
6. 2004 Election Commission of India
7. 2009 Election Commission of India
8. 2014 Election Commission of India
9. 2015 By Election Commission of India