Melghat (Maharashtra) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Melghat Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

Melghat is situated in the Amravati district of Maharashtra. The word Melghat means 'meeting of the ghats'. In 1974, the place was declared a Tiger Reserve. The assembly constituency of Melghat belongs to Amravati parliamentary constituency. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. The seat was occupied by INC from 1967 to 1995. It lost to BJP in the subsequent three assembly elections. But in the 2009 assembly elections the INC regained its lost ground. Kale Kewalram Tulshiram defeated Patel Rajkumar Dayaram of BJP. Tulshiram bagged 63619 votes as against Dayaram's 62909 votes.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Melghat Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	41	Melghat	(ST)	Bhilawekar Prabhdas Babulal	M	BJP	57002	Rajkumar Dayaram Patel	M	NCP	55023
2009	41	Melghat	(ST)	Capt. Kale Kewalram Tulshiram	M	INC	63619	Patel Rajkumar Dayaram	M	BJP	62909
2004	119	Melghat	(ST)	Rajkumar Dayaram Patel	M	BJP	61354	Patel Ramu Mhatang	M	INC	57582
1999	119	Melghat	(ST)	Rajkumar Dayaram Patel	M	BJP	43698	Patel Ramu Mahatang	M	INC	40363
1995	119	Melghat	(ST)	Patlya Langda Mavaskar	M	BJP	37377	Patel Rajkumar Dayaram	M	BSP	32209
1990	119	Melghat	(ST)	Kale Tuilshiram Rupna	M	INC	28098	Ramesh Raikwar	M	SHS	16186
1985	119	Melghat	(ST)	Patel Ramu Mhatang	M	INC	40441	Hiralal Onkar	M	BJP	6348
1980	119	Melghat	(ST)	Narayan Nanu	M	INC(I)	31420	Patel Ramu Mhatang	M	IND	10131
1978	119	Melghat	(ST)	Patel Ramu Mhatang	M	INC(I)	34998	Sarage Hiralal Onkar	M	JNP	14444
1972	110	Melghat	(ST)	Ramu Mhatang Patel	M	INC	34542	Narayan Nanu Bedhe	M	IND	17756
1968	0	Melghat	(ST)	R.Mhatang	M	INC	M	Uncontested	M
1967	110	Melghat	(ST)	D.N. Patel	M	INC	21004	S. Chinu	M	RPI	14602
1962	177	Melghat	GEN	Mamraj Jagannath Khandelwal	M	IND	29403	Girjabai	F	INC	23661