Dharavi Assembly constituency

Dharavi Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the Mumbai City district.^[1]

Dharavi
Constituency No. 178 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai City
Lok Sabha constituency	Mumbai South Central
Established	1978
Total electors	2,60,747(2024)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jyoti Gaikwad
Party	INC
Elected year	2024

Overview

Dharavi (constituency number 178) is one of the 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai City district.^[2] Number of electorates in 2009 was 268,779 (male 152,013, female 116,766) 113,732 are voters from minority community.^[3]

It is a part of the Mumbai South Central (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Sion Koliwada, Wadala, Mahim, from Mumbai City district and Chembur and Anushakti Nagar from Mumbai Suburban district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1978	Satyendra More		Communist Party of India
1980	Premanand Awale		Indian National Congress
1985	Eknath Gaikwad		Indian National Congress
1990
1995	Baburao Mane		Shiv Sena
1999	Eknath Gaikwad		Indian National Congress
2004	Varsha Gaikwad
2009
2014
2019
2024	Jyoti Gaikwad

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Dharavi^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jyoti Gaikwad	70,574	53.87	+8.56
	SS	Rajesh Shivdas Khandare	47,165	36	+0.42
	BSP	Manohar Kedari Raibage	6,182	4.72	+3.15
	NOTA		1747	1.33
Majority			23,409	17.86
Turnout			131,020
	INC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Dharavi^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varsha Gaikwad	53,954	45.31
	SS	Ashish Vasant More	42,130	35.58
	AIMIM	Manoj Sansare	13,099	11.00
	MNS	Kawade Sandeep Vinayak	4,062	3.41
	BSP	Anita Deepak Gautam	1,870	1.57
Majority			11,824	10.09
Turnout			1,19,092	47.59
	INC hold		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Dharavi^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varsha Gaikwad	47,718	40.38	−9.37
	SS	Baburao Mane	32,390	27.41	−13.13
	BJP	Divya Dholay	20,763	17.57	N/A
	IND	Hanumantha S Nandepalli	5,333	4.51
	BSP	Adv Sandeep Dattu Katke	3,143	2.66
Majority			15,328	12.97	+3.76
Turnout			1,18,160	49.42
	INC hold		Swing	-9.37

2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Dharavi^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varsha Gaikwad	52,492	49.75
	SS	Manohar Raibage	42,782	40.54
	BSP	Vishnu Gaikwad	7,269	6.89
	IND	Daulatram Bhujingrao Kawle	1,720	1.63
Majority			9,710	9.21
Turnout			1,05,523	39.26
	INC hold		Swing

2004

2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Dharavi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varsha Gaikwad	64,981
	SS	Snehal Jadhav	49,151
Majority			15,830
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing