Kolhapur Assembly constituency

Kolhapur Vidhan Sabha seat was one of the constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha, in India. It was a segment of Kolhapur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Kolhapur seat existed until the 2004 elections after which it was bifurcated into Kolhapur North & Kolhapur South seat in 2008.^[2]

Kolhapur
Former constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolhapur
Established	1962
Abolished	2008

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1952	Balvant Baralay		Peasants and Workers Party
1957	Pandurang Salokhe
1962	Sitaram Karkhanis
1967
1972
1978	Ravindra Sabnis		Janata Party
1980	Lalasaheb Yadav		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	N. D. Patil		Peasants and Workers Party
1990	Diliprao Desai		Shiv Sena
1995	Suresh Salokhe
1999
2004	Malojiraje Chhatrapati		Indian National Congress
2009 onwards : See Kolhapur North & Kolhapur South

Election results

1957

1957 Bombay State Legislative Assembly election:Kolhapur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PWPI	Pandurang Salokhe	28,644	70.31
	INC	Ahilyabai Dabholkar	7,595	18.64
	Independent	Dattoba Patil Takalikar	4,502	11.05
Margin of victory			21,049	51.67
Turnout			40,741	65.34
	PWPI hold		Swing

1952

1952 Bombay State Legislative Assembly election:Kolhapur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PWPI	Balvant Baralay	10,909	34.91
	INC	Ganpatrao Jadhav	8,923	28.55
	Socialist	Urmila Sabnis	5,035	16.11
Margin of victory			1,986	6.36
Turnout			31,250	51.15
	PWPI win (new seat)

See also

• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly