Bicholim (Goa) Election 2022 Update

Bicholim Assembly Constituency

Bicholim is constituency No. 3 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in North Goa district and comes under North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to data with the Election Commission of India, Bicholim has 23,894 registered voters. It comprises 12,094 male and 11,800 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, independent candidate Naresh Rajaram Sawal won this seat by a margin of 1,799 votes. Sawal got 8,331 votes while his nearest opponent, Rajesh T. Patnekar of Congress, got 6,532. The turnout was 88.04%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Bicholim Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1967	8	Bicholim	GEN	C . D . Keshav	M	MAG	5565	S . S . Sakharam	M	IND	1149
1972	8	Bicholim	GEN	K. S. Gurudutta	M	MAG	6589	S. Ramesh Narayan	M	INC	2393
1977	7	Bicholim	GEN	Kakodkar Shashikala Gurudutt	F	MAG	6866	Naik Vinayak Vasudev	INC	INC	3746
1980	7	Bicholim	GEN	Prabhu Zantye Harish Narayan	M	IND	8354	Kakodkar Shashikala Gurudutta	F	MAG	5981
1984	7	Bicholim	GEN	Prabhu Zantye Harish Narayan	M	INC	8607	Naik Vinayak Vasudeo	M	MAG	4782
1989	15	Bicholim	GEN	Raut Pandurang Dattaram	M	MAG	6465	Prabhu Zantye Harish Narayan	M	INC	4897
1994	15	Bicholim	GEN	Bhatale Pandurang Krishna	M	INC	5135	Raut Pandurang Dattaram	M	IND	4817
1999	15	Bicholim	GEN	Raut Pandurang Dattaram	M	MAG	5089	Patnekar Rajesh Tulshidas	M	BJP	4999
2002	15	Bicholim	GEN	Patnekar Rajesh Tulshidas	M	BJP	8960	Raut Pandurang Dattaram	M	MAG	6400
2007	15	Bicholim	GEN	Patnekar Rajesh Tulsidas	M	BJP	9352	Naresh Sawal	M	INC	6657
2012	3	Bicholim	GEN	Naresh Rajaram Sawal	M	IND	8331	Rajesh T. Patnekar	M	INC	6532
2017	3	Bicholim	GEN	Rajesh Patnekar	M	BJP	10654	Naresh Sawal	M	MGP	9988