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
Lok Sabha constituency	Yavatmal-Washim
Established	1978
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sai Prakash Dahake
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Elected year	2024

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[3]	Party
1978	Arvind Deshmukh		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		Shiv Sena
2009	Prakash Dahake		Nationalist Congress Party
2014	Rajendra Patni		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019
2024	Sai Prakash Dahake

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Karanja

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sai Prakash Dahake	85,005	40.64
	NCP-SP	Gyayak Rajendra Patni	49,932	23.87
	AIMIM	Mohammad Yusuf Punjani	31,042	14.84
	VBA	Sunil Kesheorao Dhabekar	24,412	11.67
	Samnak Janta Party	Yayati Manoharrao Naik	7,962	3.81
Majority			35,073
Turnout			2,09,154
	BJP gain from NCP-SP		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Karanja^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajendra Patni	73,205	39.29
	NCP	Sai 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			22,724
Turnout			18,6,342	61.77
	BJP gain from NCP		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Karanja^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajendra Patni	44,751	24.41
	BBM	Yusuf Punjani	40,604	22.14
	MNS	Ranjit Jadhav	29,751	16.23
	Independent	Prakash Dahake	27,043	14.75
	NCP	Subhash Thakare	21,066	11.49
Margin of victory			4,147	2.27
Turnout			1,83,363	63.51
	BJP gain from NCP		Swing

See also

• Karanja (disambiguation)