Balapur
Constituency No. 29 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionWestern India
StateMaharashtra
DistrictAkola
LS constituencyAkola
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Shiv Sena (UBT)
AllianceMaha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)
Elected year2019

Balapur Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra State Assembly and one of the five which are located in Akola district.

It is a part of the Akola (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Akot, Akola West and Akola East, Murtizapur(SC) and Risod from the Washim district.[1]

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 29 Balapur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: 1. Balapur Tehsil, 2. Patur Tehsil, 3. Akola Tehsil (Part) Revenue Circle - Ugawa of the Akola district.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
1952 Dagadu Palaspagar Indian National Congress
Ghiyasuddin Kazi
1957
1962 Shriram Mankar Independent politician
1967 Madhusudan Vairale Indian National Congress
1972 Govindrao Sarnaik
1978 Prakashchandra Gujarathi Indian National Congress
1980 Pralhadrao Khode
1981^ Laxmanrao Tayade
1985 Govardhan Khotre Indian National Congress
1990 Kisanrao Raut Bharatiya Janata Party
1995 Narayanrao Gavhankar
1999 Laxmanrao Tayade Indian National Congress
2004 Narayanrao Gavhankar Bharatiya Janata Party
2009 Baliram Sirskar Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh
2014
2019 Nitin Tale Shiv Sena

Election results

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Balapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SHS Nitin Kumar Tale 69,343 35.48
VBA Dhairyavardhan Pundkar 50,555 25.87
AIMIM Dr Rehman Khan 44,507 22.77
NCP Sangram Gawande 16,497 8.44
Majority 18,788 9.61
Turnout
SHS gain from VBA Swing

See also

References

  1. ^ "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 14 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 March 2015.

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