About Cumbarjua Assembly Constituency
Cumbarjua is constituency No. 15 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in North Goa district and comes under the North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open assembly constituency. The state of Goa has 40 assembly constituencies. According to data with the Election Commission of India, Cumbarjua has 23,757 registered voters. It comprises 11,650 male and 12,107 female registered voters.
In the last Goa assembly elections held in 2012, the Congress won this constituency by a safe margin of 1,575 votes. Pandurang A. Madkaikar, the winning candidate from Congress, got 9,556 votes. Independent candidate Nirmala P. Sawant was the nearest contender with 7,981 votes. The voter turnout was 83.54 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Cumbarjua Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Cumbarjua assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 1977 | 12 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Ghodankar Vinayak Dharma | M | MAG | 5145 | Desai Shrikant Govind | M | JNP | 4177 |
| 1980 | 12 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Chodankar Vinayak Dharma | M | MAG | 4876 | Mayenkar Mukund Narayan | M | IND | 3143 |
| 1989 | 14 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Dharma Vassudeo Chodankar | M | MAG | 5645 | Nirmala Prabhakar Sawant | F | INC | 5189 |
| 1994 | 14 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Kuttikar Krishna Saju | M | INC | 6738 | Chodankar Dharma Vassudev | M | MAG | 6428 |
| 1999 | 14 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Nirmala Prabhakar Sawant | F | INC | 6004 | Parvatkar Govind Bhikaji | M | BJP | 5154 |
| 2002 | 14 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Madakaikar Pandurang | M | MAG | 6546 | Sawant Nirmala Prabhakar | F | INC | 5938 |
| 2007 | 14 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Madkaikar Pandurang Arjun | M | INC | 10016 | Sawant Nirmala | M | IND | 9445 |
| 2012 | 15 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Pandurang A. Madkaikar | M | INC | 9556 | Nirmala P. Sawant | M | IND | 7981 |
| 2017 | 15 | Cumbarjua | GEN | Pandurang Madkaikar | M | BJP | 12395 | Xavier Fialho | M | INC | 3961 |
Last Updated on August 14, 2021