Rajapur Assembly constituency

Rajapur Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.^[1]

Rajapur
Constituency No. 267 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Ratnagiri
Lok Sabha constituency	Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kiran Samant
Party	Shiv Sena
Alliance	Mahayuti
Elected year	2024

Overview

Rajapur constituency is one of the five Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Ratnagiri district. It comprises the entire Rajapur and Lanja tehsils and part of Sangameshwar tehsil of the district.^[2]

Rajapur is part of the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Ratnagiri and Chiplun in Ratnagiri district and Kankavli, Kudal and Sawantwadi in the Sindhudurg district.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[4]	Party
1962	Sahadev Thakre		Indian National Congress
1967	Laxman Hatankar		Praja Socialist Party
1972	Sahadev Thakre		Indian National Congress
1978	Laxman Hatankar		Janata Party
1980	Narayan Tawde
1985	Laxman Hatankar		Indian National Congress
1990
1995	Vijay Salvi		Shiv Sena
1999	Ganpat Kadam
2004
2009	Rajan Salvi
2014
2019
2024	Kiran Samant

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Rajapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Kiran Samant	80,256	51.91
	SS(UBT)	Rajan Salvi	60,579	39.18
	IND	Avinash Shantram Lad	7,945	5.14
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,834	1.19
Majority			19,677	12.73
Turnout			1,54,615
	SS gain from SS(UBT)		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Rajapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Rajan Salvi	65,433	49.42
	INC	Avinash Shantaram Lad	53,557	40.45
	MNS	Avinash Dhondu Soundalkar	6,150	4.65
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,576	1.95
Majority			11,876
Turnout			1,32,392	55.65
	SS gain from INC		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Rajapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Rajan Salvi	76,266	53.33
	INC	Rajan Yashwant Desai	37,204	26.02
	NCP	Ramesh Yashwanthrao Ajit	11,923	8.34
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,935	1.35
Majority			39,062
Turnout			1,42,997	61.07
	SS gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Rajapur
• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha