Karanja Assembly constituency

Karanja Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the three which are located in Washim district. On 23 February 2024, Karanja Assembly constituency seat got Vacant as the Death of sitting MLA Rajendra Patni.

Karanja
Constituency No. 35 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Washim
LS constituency	Yavatmal-Washim
Established	1978
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Vacant
Party	None
Elected year	2019

It is a part of the Yavatmal-Washim (Lok Sabha constituency) with the adjoining Yavatmal district along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies, viz. Washim (SC), Ralegaon (ST), Yavatmal (ST), Digras and Pusad.^[1]

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 35 Karanja Assembly constituency is composed of the following: 1. Karanja Tehsil, 2. Manora Tehsil of the district.^[2]

Members of Legislative assembly

Year	Member	Party
1978	Arvind Deshmukh[3]		All India Forward Bloc
1980	Ramkrishna Rathi		Indian National Congress
1985	Anantrao Deshmukh
1990	Gulabrao Gawande		Shiv Sena
1995	Babasaheb Dhabekar		Independent politician
1999			Indian National Congress
2004	Rajendra Patni[4]		Shiv Sena
2009	Prakash Dahake[5]		Nationalist Congress Party
2014[6]	Rajendra Patni		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019[7]

Election results

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Karanja^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajendra Patni	73,205	39.29
	NCP	Prakash Dahake	50,481	27.09
	BSP	Mohammad Yusuf Shafi Punjani	41,907	22.49
	VBA	Ram Sheshrao Chavhan	12,419	6.7
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout			18,6,342	61.77
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Karanja (disambiguation)

Notes

1. "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. 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.
3. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 1978". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
4. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2004". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
5. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2009". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
6. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
7. "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 February 2022.

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