Guhagar Assembly constituency

Guhagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.

Guhagar
Constituency No. 264 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Ratnagiri
Lok Sabha constituency	Raigad
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bhaskar Jadhav
Party	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)
Elected year	2024

Overview

Guhagar constituency is one of the five Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Ratnagiri district.^[1]

Before the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008, Guhagar was part of the Ratnagiri Lok Sabha constituency. After the delimitation, it became part of the Raigad Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Dapoli in the Ratnagiri district and Pen, Alibag, Shrivardhan and Mahad in the Raigad district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1962	Purshottam Mandlik		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Mahadev Kesarkar		Indian National Congress
1972	Shridhar Natu		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1978			Janata Party
1980	Ramchandra Bendal		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Shridhar Natu		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1995	Vinay Natu
1999
2004
2009	Bhaskar Jadhav		Nationalist Congress Party
2014
2019			Shiv Sena
2024			Shiv Sena (UBT)

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Guhagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS(UBT)	Bhaskar Jadhav	71,241	47.03
	SS	Rajesh Ramchandra Bendal	68,411	45.16
	MNS	Pramod Sitaram Gandhi	6,712	4.43
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,197	0.79
Majority			2,830
Turnout			1,51,487
	SS(UBT) gain from SS		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Guhagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Bhaskar Jadhav	78,748	55.18%
	NCP	Sahadev Devji Betkar	52,297	36.65%
	VBA	Vikas Yashwant Jadhav	5,069	3.55%
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,061	1.44%
Majority			26,451
Turnout			1,42,708	59.37%
	SS gain from NCP		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Guhagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Bhaskar Jadhav	72,525	47.70%
	BJP	Dr Vinay Shridhar Natu	39,761	26.15%
	SS	Vijaykumar Ganpat Bhosle	32,083	21.10%
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,693	1.11%
Majority			32,764
Turnout			1,52,040	66.52%
	NCP gain from BJP		Swing

2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Guhagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Bhaskar Jadhav	53,108	37.37
	SS	Ramdas Kadam	40,032	28.17
	Independent	Dr. Vinay Natu	29,606	20.83
Majority			13,076
Turnout			1,42,111	69.20
	NCP gain from SS		Swing

See also

• Guhagar
• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha