Arni Assembly constituency

Arni-Kelapur Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district. It is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidate.

Arni
Constituency No. 80 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Yavatmal
Lok Sabha constituency	Chandrapur
Established	1951
Reservation	ST
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Raju Narayan Todsam
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance	MahaYuti
Elected year	2024

It is a part of the Chandrapur (Lok Sabha constituency) with adjoining Chandrapur district along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies, viz. Rajura, Chandrapur(SC), Ballarpur and Warora from the Chandrapur district and Wani from the Yavatmal district.

The remaining constituencies from Yavatmal district, Ralegaon(ST), Yavatmal, Digras and Pusad are part of Yavatmal-Washim (Lok Sabha constituency) while Umarkhed is part of the Hingoli (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of Legislative assembly

Year	Member	Party
1952	Dattatraya Krishnarao Deshmukh Parvekar alias Babasaheb Parvekar		Indian National Congress
1957	Trambak Dattatrya Deshmukh Parvekar alias Abasaheb Parvekar
1962
1967
1972
1978	Masram Lakhuji Marotrao		Indian National Congress (I)
1980	Shivajirao Moghe
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Gedam Deorao Jaitaji		Janata Dal
1995	Shivajirao Moghe		Independent politician
1999			Indian National Congress
2004	Sandip Prabhakar Dhurve		Bharatiya Janata Party
Before 2008: See Kelapur Assembly constituency
2009	Shivajirao Moghe		Indian National Congress
2014	Raju Narayan Todsam		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Sandip Prabhakar Dhurve
2024	Raju Narayan Todsam

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Arni-Kelapur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raju Todsam	127,203	54.00
	INC	Jitendra Shivajirao Moghe	97,890	41.56
	PHJSP	Neeta Anandrao Madavi	1,804	0.77%
	BSP	Baban Sriniwas Soyam	1,700	0.72%
	Independent	Adv.Ajay Datta Atram	1,313	0.56%
	Independent	Niranjan Shivram Masram	613	0.26%
Majority			29,313
Turnout			2,35,542	72.67%
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Arni-Kelapur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sandip Prabhakar Dhurve	81,599	38.62%
	INC	Shivajirao Moghe	78,446	37.13%
	Independent	Raju Narayan Todsam	26,949	12.75%
	VBA	Niranjan Shivram Masram	12,307	5.82%
	BMP	Adv.Anil Bhimrao Kinake	2,791	1.32%
	BSP	Baliram Abhiman Neware	2,032	0.96%
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,411	1.14%
Majority			3,153
Turnout			2,11,294	67.66%
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Ralegaon^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raju Narayan Todsam	86,991	43.63%
	INC	Shivajirao Moghe	66,270	33.24%
	SS	Sandip Prabhakar Dhurve	30,960	15.53%
	BSP	Shinde Ranjita Parashram	4,197	2.11%
	NCP	Vishnu Shankarrao Ukande	2,972	1.49%
	BMP	Adv.Anil Bhimrao Kinake	2,410	1.21%
	GGP	Niranjan Shivram Masram	1,135	0.57%
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,957	0.98%
Majority			20,721
Turnout			1,99,365	69.37%
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Arni-Kelapur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shivajirao Moghe	90,882	54.24%
	BJP	Uttam Raghobaji Ingale	53,301	31.81%
	Independent	Raju Narayan Todsam	5,530	3.03%
	GGP	Niranjan Shivram Masram	5,145	3.07%
	BSP	Velade Laxmanrao Sonbaji	3,584	2.14%
	CPI(M)	Sidam Govinda Gangaram	3,080	1.84%
	JSS	Dr.Vishnu Shankarrao Ukande	1,554	0.93%
Majority			37,581
Turnout			1,67,545	64.63%
	INC gain from BJP		Swing