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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.
| Vasai | |
|---|---|
| Assembly Constituency | |
| District | Palghar |
| State | Maharashtra |
| Electorate | 3,04,697 |
| Lok Sabha Constituency | Palghar |
| Current Assembly Constituency | |
| Created | 2019 |
| Party | Bahujan Vikas Aghadi |
| MLA | Hitendra Thakur |
| Last election | 2014 |
| Ex MLA | Hitendra Thakur |
| Most Successful Party | Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (2 times) |
Overview[edit]
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[edit]
Key
JP [[Indian National Congress (Indira)|Template:Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/shortname]] INC Independent [[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
2019 results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]] | Hitendra Thakur | 1,02,950 | 54.19 |  3.15
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| SHS | Vijay Govind Patil | 76,955 | 40.5 | 
| |
| MNS | Prafulla Narayan Thakur | 3,540 | 1.86 | 0.68
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| [[Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi|Template:Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi/meta/shortname]] | Shahid Kamal Shaikh | 1,570 | 0.83 |
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| BSP | Anton Victor Dicuna | 1,288 | 0.68 | 0.19
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| Independent | Suneel Mani Singh | 666 | 0.35 |
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| NOTA | None of the above | 3,036 | 1.6 | 0.05
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| Majority | 25,995 | 13.68 |  3.06
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| Turnout | 1,90,005 | 62.36 | 3.82
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| Registered electors | 3,04,697 | ||||
| [[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]] hold | Swing | ||||
2014 results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]] | Hitendra Thakur | 97,291 | 51.04 | +12.67 | |
| Independent | Vivek Pandit | 65,395 | 34.30 | -14.05 | |
| INC | Michael Furtado | 16,467 | 8.64 | +3.47 | |
| Independent | Manuel Tuscano | 3,981 | 2.09 | N/A | |
| MNS | Swapnil Nar | 2,329 | 1.22 | N/A | |
| BSP | Vinod Tambe | 930 | 0.49 | +0.08 | |
| Independent | Arvind Upadhyay | 677 | 0.36 | N/A | |
| BMP | Sadashiv Hatkar | 595 | 0.31 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,964 | 1.55 | N/A | |
| Majority | 31,896 | 16.74 | +6.76 | ||
| Turnout | 1,90,629 | 66.18 | +3.52 | ||
| Registered electors | 2,88,041 | ||||
| Bahujan Vikas Aghadi gain from Independent | Swing | +13.36 | |||
2009 results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Vivek Pandit | 81,358 | 48.35 | ||
| [[Bahujan Vikas Aghadi|Template:Bahujan Vikas Aghadi/meta/shortname]] | Narayan Mankar | 64,560 | 38.37 | ||
| INC | Jimi Gonsalves | 8,695 | 5.17 | ||
| Lok Bharati | Datta Nar | 3,883 | 2.31 | ||
| Independent | Dominic D'Mello | 3,460 | 2.06 | ||
| Independent | Denis Lopes | 2,229 | 1.32 | ||
| Independent | Claid Martin | 1,294 | 0.77 | ||
| Independent | Salman Mishal | 1,184 | 0.70 | ||
| Independent | Thomas Almeda | 900 | 0.53 | ||
| BSP | Vinod Tambe | 691 | 0.41 | ||
| Majority | 16,798 | 9.98 | |||
| Turnout | 1,68,254 | 62.66 | |||
| Independent gain from Independent | Swing | ||||