Kothrud (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kothrud Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in Western India. It is one of the twenty one constituencies of located in the Pune district and one of eight in Pune City.

Kothrud
Constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
District	Pune
State	Maharashtra
Lok Sabha Constituency	Pune
Current constituency
Created	2019
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
MLA	Chandrakant Patil
Reservation	None

It is a part of the Pune (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Kasba Peth, Parvati, Pune Cantonment(SC), Shivajinagar, Vadgaon Sheri from Pune City.

Kothrud Assembly Constituency came into existence by dividing Shivaji Nagar assembly constituency as well as dissolving Bhavani Peth constituency. It was not swing from Nationalist Congress Party to Shiv Sena. It is the stronghold of Shiv Sena. After division Kothrud won by Shiv Sena and Shivajinagar by Vinayak Nimhan, Indian National Congress.

Members of Legislative Assembly

For results before 2009, see : Shivajinagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Key

  BJP     SHS  

Election		Member	Party
	2009	Chandrakant Mokate	Shiv Sena
	2014	Medha Kulkarni	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2019	Chandrakant Patil	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2019 results

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kothrud

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandrakant Patil	1,05,246	53.93
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	79,751	40.87
	NOTA	None of the above	4,028	2.06
	[[Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi|Template:Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi/meta/shortname]]	Adv. Deepak Narayanrao Shamdire	2,428	1.28
Majority			25,495	13.34
Turnout			1,95,158	48.20
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 results

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election:Kothrud

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[BJP|Template:BJP/meta/shortname]]	Medha Kulkarni	1,00,941	51.15	N/A
	SHS	Chandrakant Mokate	36,279	18.38	-15.26
	NCP	Baburao Chandere	28,179	14.28	+1.94
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	21,392	10.84	-18.14
	INC	Umesh Kandhare	6,713	3.40	N/A
	BSP	Arun Gaikwad	1,061	0.54	-0.48
	[[Peasants and Workers Party of India|Template:Peasants and Workers Party of India/meta/shortname]]	Madhav Dhanve-Patil	456	0.23	N/A
	Independent	Suhas Gajarmal	158	0.08	N/A
	Independent	Rahul Mhaske	141	0.07	N/A
	Independent	Dr. Somnath Pol	131	0.07	N/A
	Independent	Aatmaja Pankar	124	0.06	N/A
	Independent	Bapu Sasane	120	0.06	N/A
	Independent	Prasad Salunke	59	0.03	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,583	0.80	N/A
Majority			64,662	32.77	+28.11
Turnout			1,97,338	56.57
Registered electors			3,48,846
	BJP gain from SHS		Swing

2009 results

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kothrud

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SHS	Chandrakant Mokate	52,055	33.64
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	44,841	28.98
	Independent	Deepak Mankar	22,853	14.77
	NCP	Anna Joshi	19,095	12.34
	Independent	Ujwal Keskar	10,000	6.46
	BSP	Raju Sanke	1,572	1.02
	Independent	Dr. Yashraj Parkhi	794	0.51
	Independent	Jaywant Dahibhate	705	0.46
	ABHM	Himani Savarkar	684	0.44
	Independent	Sunil Choudhari	672	0.43
	[[Rashtriya Samaj Paksha|Template:Rashtriya Samaj Paksha/meta/shortname]]	Vijay Bodekar	453	0.29
style="background-color: Template:Prabuddha Republican Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Prabuddha Republican Party|Template:Prabuddha Republican Party/meta/shortname]]	Pallavi Harshe	410	0.26
	Independent	Deepak Baladhe	239	0.15
	Independent	Manohar Borkar	198	0.13
	Independent	Abhangrao Hemant Bhagwat	182	0.12
Majority			5,414	4.66
Turnout			1,54,753	51.16
	SHS win (new seat)

See also

• Kothrud
• Pune
• Shivajinagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Kothrud area was part of this constituency until 2008)
• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly