Pernem (Goa) Election 2022 Update

Pernem Assembly Constituency

Pernem is constituency No. 2 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in North Goa district and comes under North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is the only reserved constituency of Goa Assembly. It is reserved for scheduled castes. According to data with the Election Commission of India, Pernem has 29,515 registered voters. It comprises 15,040 male and 14,475 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, the BJP won this seat by a margin of 8,353 votes. Rajendra Arlekar, the winning BJP candidate, got 16,406 votes. The nearest contender was Manohar Trimbak Ajgaoankar of Congress who got 8,053 votes. The turnout was 87.89%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Pernem Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Pernem assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1967	1	Pernem	GEN	K . B . Laxman	M	MAG	4499	B . Desprabhu	M	IND	2181
1972	1	Pernem	GEN	Rane Jaisingrao Abasaheb	M	MAG	5477	Deshprabhu Raghunathrao	M	INC	2828
1977	1	Pernem	(SC)	Mandrekar Deu Gunaji	M	MAG	3978	Morajkar Ramdas Shankar	M	INC	1990
1980	1	Pernem	(SC)	Mandrekar Deu Gunaji	M	MAG	4701	Morajkar Ramdas Shankar	M	INC(I)	2290
1984	1	Pernem	(SC)	Bandekar Shambhu Bhavti	M	INC	4648	Pednekar Mahohar	M	MAG	4632
1989	2	Pernem	GEN	Salgoankar Shankar Kashinath	M	MAG	7074	Talevnekar Raju Bapu	M	INC	3545
1994	2	Pernem	GEN	Kotkar Parshuram Nagesh	M	MAG	8198	Salgaonkar Shankar Kashinath	M	INC	3919
1999	2	Pernem	GEN	Deshprabhu Jitendra Raghuraj	M	INC	5129	Kotkar Parshuram Nagesh	M	MAG	3963
2002	2	Pernem	GEN	Deshprabhu Jitendra Raghuraj	M	INC	6778	Dayanand Raghunath Sopate	M	BJP	4449
2007	2	Pernem	GEN	Sopte Dayanand Raghunath	M	BJP	7272	Deshprabhu Jitendra Raghura	M	INC	4827
2012	2	Pernem	(SC)	Rajendra Arlekar	M	BJP	16406	Manohar Trimbak Ajgaoankar	M	INC	8053
2017	2	Pernem	(SC)	Ajgaonkar Manohar Trimbak	M	MGP	15745	Rajendra Arlekar	M	BJP	9715