Sion Koliwada Assembly constituency

Sion Koliwada Assembly constituency is one of the ten constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in Mumbai City district.^[1]

Sion Koliwada
Constituency No. 179 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai City
Lok Sabha constituency	Mumbai South Central
Established	2008
Total electors	2,81,299(2024)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Captain R. Tamil Selvan
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Overview

Sion Koliwada (constituency number 179) is one of the 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai City district.^[2] Number of electorates in 2009 was 290,338 (male 167,923, female 122,514) 78,913 are minority voters.^[3]

It is a part of Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha constituency along with five other assembly constituencies, Dharavi, Wadala and Mahim from Mumbai City district and Chembur and Anushakti Nagar from Mumbai Suburban district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2009	Jagannath Shetty		Indian National Congress
2014	R. Tamil Selvan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019
2024

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Sion Koliwada^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	R. Tamil Selvan	73,429	48.25
	INC	Ganesh Kumar Yadav	65,534	43.07
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,893	1.24
Majority			7,895	5.18
Turnout			1,52,174
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Sion Koliwada^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	R. Tamil Selvan	54,845	42.24
	INC	Ganesh Kumar Yadav	40,894	31.49
	MNS	Anant Laxman Kamble	13,684	10.54
	VBA	Amiruddin Alqamar Nizamuddin	11,556	8.90
	NOTA	None of the above	3,259	2.51
Majority			13,951	11.02
Turnout			1,29,883	50.48
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Sion Koliwada^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	R. Tamil Selvan	40,869	30.50	+6.83
	SS	Mangesh Satamkar	37,131	27.71	N/A
	INC	Jagannath Shetty	23,107	17.24	−21.87
	NCP	Prasad Lad	11,769	8.78	N/A
	Independent	Manoj Sansare	6,716	5.01	N/A
	AIMIM	Mohammad Raza Shaikh	5,896	4.40	N/A
	MNS	Baba Kadam	3,370	2.51	−15.34
	BSP	Bharat Shukla	1,809	1.35	−1.25
	NOTA	None of the above	1,457	1.09	N/A
Majority			3,738	2.79	−12.65
Turnout			1,34,022	52.73
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Sion Koliwada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jagannath Shetty	45,638	39.11
	BJP	Manisha Kayande	27,615	23.67
	MNS	Vinod Khopkar	20,827	17.85
	RPI(A)	Manoj Sansare	15,661	13.42
	BSP	Ganesh Ayyer	3,030	2.60
	Independent	Shakil Ahmed	1,211	1.04
	AIADMK	S. Ramanathan Thevar	1,005	0.86
Majority			18,023	15.44
Turnout			1,16,687	40.19
	INC win (new seat)