Santacruz Assembly constituency

Santacruz was one of the 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra, a western state of India. Santacruz was also part of Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Santacruz existed till 2004 elections until Kalina Assembly constituency was formed in 2008.^[2]

Santacruz
Former constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
Lok Sabha constituency	Mumbai North Central
Established	1972
Abolished	2008

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1972	Jagesh Desai[3]		Indian National Congress
1978	Shobhanath Sinha[3]		Janata Party
1980	Commachen C D[4]		Indian National Congress
1985	C D Ommachen[5]		Indian National Congress
1990[6]	Abhiram Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995[7]
1999[8]	Kripashankar Singh		Indian National Congress
2004[9]

Election results

2004

2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Santacruz^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kripashankar Singh	78,263
	BJP	Alavani Parag Madhusudan	56,074
	Independent	Nicholas Benjamin Almeida	2,384
	BSP	Bastiwala Tahira	1,666
Majority			22,189
Turnout			1,42,167
	INC hold		Swing