Bhiwandi Rural Assembly constituency

The Bhiwandi Rural Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of the Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is located in the Thane district and Palghar district, and was created in 2008 delimitation exercise. Most of the area under it was earlier covered by the erstwhile Wada Assembly constituency. It is a segment of Bhiwandi (Lok Sabha constituency) .

Geographical scope

The constituency comprises parts of Bhiwandi taluka viz. revenue circles Dighashi, Angaon, Padgha, Additional Bhiwandi, Kharbav, Padgha (CT), Kon (CT) parts of Wada taluka viz. revenue circles Wada.

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Election	Member	Party
Until 2008	Seat did not exist. See : Wada
2009	Vishnu Savara		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Shantaram More		Shiv Sena
2019

Election results

Assembly Elections 2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Bhiwandi Rural (ST)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vishnu Rama Savara	46,996	34.67
	NCP	Shantaram Dundaram Patil	44,804	33.06
	MNS	Dasharath Dundaram Patil	36,687	27.07
	Independent	Govind Valkya Rawate	4,624	3.41
	BSP	Prabhakar Shankar Waghe	2,427	1.79
Majority			2,192	1.61
Turnout			1,35,538	56.65
	BJP win (new seat)

Assembly Elections 2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Bhiwandi Rural (ST)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SHS	Shantaram More	57,082	32.84	N/A
	BJP	Shantaram Dundaram Patil	47,922	27.57	-7.10
	MNS	Dasharath Dundaram Patil	25,580	14.72	-12.35
	NCP	Mahadeo Ambo Ghatal	23,413	13.47	-19.59
	INC	Sachin Damodar Shingda	10,923	6.28	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	2,267	1.30	N/A
	BSP	Tukaram Suresh More	2,090	1.20	-0.59
	[[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]]	Rajesh Budhaji Dumada	1,318	0.76	N/A
	CPI	Balkrishna Janu Wagh	1,268	0.73	N/A
	Independent	Ananta Zipru Dalvi	1,145	0.66	N/A
	Independent	Ananta Krushna Chaudhari	790	0.45	N/A
Majority			9,160	5.27	+4.06
Turnout			1,73,758	66.23	+9.58
	SHS gain from BJP		Swing	N/A