Raver (Maharashtra) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Raver Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Raver is a city in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. As of 2011 India census, Raver had a population of 312,082. The assembly constituency of Raver is a part of Raver parliamentary constituency. The seat has always been occupied by the BJP or the INC candidate since 1962. But the results of 2009 assembly elections came as a shock to everyone. Shirish Madhukarrao Chaudhari, an independent candidate won the elections by defeating both INC and BJP. Chaudhari secured 54115 votes. His nearest rival, Shobhatai Vilas Patil of BJP managed to get only 32579 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Raver Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	11	Raver	GEN	Haribhau Madhav Jawale	M	BJP	65962	Chaudhari Shirish Madhukarrao	M	INC	55962
2009	11	Raver	GEN	Shirish Madhukarrao Chaudhari	M	IND	54115	Shobhatai Vilas Patil	M	BJP	32579
2004	100	Raver	GEN	Arun Pandurang Patil	M	BJP	61111	D.K Mahajan	M	INC	50180
1999	100	Raver	GEN	Mahajan Rajaram Ganu	M	INC	47719	Arun Pandurang Patil	M	BJP	41251
1995	100	Raver	GEN	Patil Arun Pandurang	M	BJP	55897	Chaudhari Madhukarrao Dhanaji	M	INC	50714
1990	100	Raver	GEN	Madhukarrao Dhanaji	M	INC	42116	Gunwant Rambhan Sarode	M	BJP	36837
1985	100	Raver	GEN	Gunwant Rambhau Sarode	M	BJP	27074	Mirabai Dagekhan Tadavi	F	INC	22463
1980	100	Raver	GEN	Patil Ramkrishan Raghunath	M	INC(I)	26545	Patil Ramkrishna Sitaram	M	INC(U)	18932
1978	100	Raver	GEN	Choudhari M.D.	M	INC	26961	Sarode Gunwant Rambhau	M	JNP	17287
1972	92	Raver	GEN	M. R. Dhanaji Chaudhari	M	INC	49967	Bhika Nathu Patil	M	BJS	3748
1967	92	Raver	GEN	M. D. Chaudhari	M	INC	39335	K. G. Patil	M	BJS	7325
1962	158	Raver	GEN	Mahukar Dhanaji Chaudhari	M	INC	28848	Gajananrao Raghunathrao Garud	M	PSP	18169