Chandrapur (Maharashtra) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Chandrapur Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Chandrapur is the city in the district by the same name of Maharashtra. The city is also the district headquarters. As of 2011 India census, the city had a population of 2,204,307. The assembly constituency of Chandrapur belongs to Chandrapur parliamentary constituency. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. The seat has been occupied by BJP since 1995. Shamkule Nanaji Sitaram of BJP won the 2009 asembly elections and is the present MLA. He defeated Ramteke Bita Ghansham of INC. Sitaram bagged 67255 votes as against Ghansham's 51845 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Chandrapur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	71	Chandrapur	(SC)	Shamkule Nanaji Sitaram	M	BJP	81483	Kishor Gajananrao Jorgewar	M	SHS	50711
2009	71	Chandrapur	(SC)	Shamkule Nanaji Sitaram	M	BJP	67255	Ramteke Bita Ghansham	F	INC	51845
2004	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Mungantiwar Sudhir Sachhidanand	M	BJP	94003	Gawande ( Guruji ) Gajanan	M	INC	67102
1999	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Mungantiwar Sudhir Sachhidanand	M	BJP	84688	Bangade Vinayak Baburao	M	INC	54109
1995	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Mungantiwar Sudhir Sachidananda	M	BJP	94379	Wankhede Shyam Gopalrao	M	INC	39915
1990	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Wankhede Shyam Gopalrao	M	INC	57622	Trivedi Gayacharam Mahaviraprasad	M	IND	24947
1985	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Wankhede Shyam Gopalrao	M	INC	49099	Khobragade Girish Dewaji	M	RPK	27133
1980	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Pugliya Naresh Chunalal	M	INC(I)	29048	Chandel Chandansinh Sadhusinh	M	BJP	16606
1978	155	Chandrapur	GEN	Pugliya Nareskumar Chunnalal	M	INC(I)	38018	Dumbere Rajaram Tulsiram	M	RPK	24857