Vasai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Vasai Vidhan Sabha Constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.

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Vasai
Constituency details
State Maharashtra
District Palghar
Constituency Palghar
Total electors3,04,697
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA Hitendra Thakur
Party Bahujan Vikas Aghadi
Elected year2019

Overview

Vasai constituency is one of the six Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Palghar district. It is a non-reserved assembly constituency and part of Vasai taluka of the district.

Vasai is part of the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Dahanu, Vikramgad, Palghar, Boisar and Nalasopara in the Palghar district.

Before delimitation, Vasai Vidhan Sabha constituency was part of the Mumbai North (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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  JP     INC(I)     INC     Independent     BVA   

ElectionMemberParty
1978 Pandharinath Choudhari Janata Party
1980 Tarabai Vartak Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985 Dominic Gonsalves Janata Party
1990 Hitendra Thakur Indian National Congress
1995 Independent
1999
2004
Major boundary changes
2009 Vivek Pandit Independent
2014 Hitendra Thakur Bahujan Vikas Aghadi
2019

Election results

2019 results

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BVA Hitendra Thakur 1,02,95054.19Increase2.svg3.15
SHS Vijay Govind Patil76,95540.5Steady2.svg
MNS Prafulla Narayan Thakur3,5401.86Increase2.svg0.68
VBA Shahid Kamal Shaikh1,5700.83Steady2.svg
BSP Anton Victor Dicuna1,2880.68Increase2.svg0.19
Independent Suneel Mani Singh6660.35Steady2.svg
NOTA None of the above3,0361.6Increase2.svg0.05
Majority25,99513.68Decrease2.svg3.06
Turnout 1,90,00562.36Decrease2.svg3.82
Registered electors 3,04,697
BVA hold Swing

2014 results

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BVA Hitendra Thakur 97,29151.04+12.67
Independent Vivek Pandit65,39534.30-14.05
INC Michael Furtado16,4678.64+3.47
Independent Manuel Tuscano3,9812.09N/A
MNS Swapnil Nar2,3291.22N/A
BSP Vinod Tambe9300.49+0.08
Independent Arvind Upadhyay6770.36N/A
BMP Sadashiv Hatkar5950.31N/A
NOTA None of the above2,9641.55N/A
Majority31,89616.74+6.76
Turnout 1,90,62966.18+3.52
Registered electors 2,88,041
BVA gain from Independent Swing +13.36

2009 results

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Vivek Pandit81,35848.35
BVA Narayan Mankar 64,56038.37
INC Jimi Gonsalves8,6955.17
Lok BharatiDatta Nar3,8832.31
Independent Dominic D'Mello3,4602.06
Independent Denis Lopes2,2291.32
Independent Claid Martin1,2940.77
Independent Salman Mishal1,1840.70
Independent Thomas Almeda9000.53
BSP Vinod Tambe6910.41
Majority16,7989.98
Turnout 1,68,25462.66
Independent gain from Independent Swing

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