About Quepem Assembly Constituency
Quepem is constituency No. 36 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in South Goa district and comes under the South 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, Quepem has 28,898 registered voters. It comprises 14,582 male and 14,316 female registered voters.
In the last Goa assembly elections held in 2012, the Congress won this constituency by a formidable margin of 6,373 votes. Chandrakant Kavalekar, the winning candidate from Congress, got 10,994 votes. With 4,621, the runner-up was Independent candidate Prakash Shankar Velip. The voter turnout was 86.11 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Quepem Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Quepem 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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| 1967 | 20 | Quepem | GEN | S . K . Desai | M | MAG | 2955 | D . S . Yeshvant | M | UGS | 1734 |
| 1972 | 20 | Quepem | GEN | Kuttikar Dhulo Chimlo | M | MAG | 3406 | Dessai Molu Ganba | M | UGS | 2815 |
| 1977 | 20 | Quepem | GEN | Dessai Vaikunt Govind | M | INC | 4168 | Gaunso Dessai Satish Nilu | M | MAG | 3597 |
| 1980 | 20 | Quepem | GEN | Gauns Dessai Vaikunt Govind | M | INC(U) | 7073 | Naik Vithal Sonu | M | MAG | 4474 |
| 1984 | 20 | Quepem | GEN | Voikunt Dessai | M | INC | 5375 | Fernandes Domnic Joaquim | M | IND | 4790 |
| 1989 | 38 | Quepem | GEN | Valip Prakash Shankar | M | MAG | 9229 | Gauns Desai Voikunt Govind | M | INC | 4919 |
| 1994 | 38 | Quepem | GEN | Prakash Shankar Velip | M | MAG | 7579 | Pereira Raul Roque | M | IND | 4335 |
| 1999 | 38 | Quepem | GEN | Prakash S. Velip | M | MAG | 5648 | Raul Rocky Pereira | M | INC | 5509 |
| 2002 | 38 | Quepem | GEN | Chandrakant Raghu Kalekar | M | INC | 8913 | Prakash Shankar Velip | M | BJP | 7058 |
| 2007 | 38 | Quepem | GEN | Chandrakant (Babu) Kavalekar | M | INC | 9474 | Prakash Shankar Velip | M | BJP | 8311 |
| 2012 | 36 | Quepem | GEN | Chandrakant Kavalekar | M | INC | 10994 | Prakash Shankar Velip | M | IND | 4621 |
| 2017 | 36 | Quepem | GEN | Chandrakant Kavalekar | M | INC | 13525 | Prakash Shankar Velip | M | BJP | 10933 |
Last Updated on August 14, 2021