Chandrapur Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

Chandrapur Parliamentary Constituency is one of the 48 constituencies of Lok Sabha in Maharashtra. The Chandrapur Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 13) has a total of 1,536,352 electorates out of which 740,196 are females and 796,156 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. It acts as the administrative centre of the Chandrapur district and spreads over the Yavatmal district as well. The city of Chandrapur is also known as Chanda. It comprises of a population of 4,00,000 of which 50% are males. The constituency has six Vidhan Sabha segments of which four belong to the General category and one each belong to the SC and ST categories. The city of Chandrapur is located at the junction of the Erai and Zarpar rivers and spreads over an area of about 80 km.

The city also houses the state’s largest pit head thermal power station, i.e., the Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station which sprawls over 120 sq km and is responsible for at least 25% of electricity of the whole state. Western Coalfield Limited, Indian Armed Force, Ordnance Factories Board, Ultratech Cement, and Steel Authority of India Limited are some of the 6,000 industries which boost the city’s industrial economy.

Chandrapur has a literacy rate of 80% and has several institutions for higher education, mostly in the fields of engineering, medical and law. It is known to be the educational centre of its district. The historic Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Arts, Commerce and Science is also situated here.

Chandrapur Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Chandrapur Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Chandrapur parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Chandrapur constituency is Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir of BJP.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	13	Chandrapur	GEN	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram	M	BJP	508049	Deotale Sanjay Wamanrao	M	INC	271780
2009	13	Chandrapur	GEN	Ahir,Shri Hansraj Gangaram	M	BJP	301467	Pugalia Naresh	M	IND	268972
2004	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram	M	BJP	366014	Naresh Puglia	M	INC	306191
1999	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Puglia Nareshkumar Chunnalal	M	INC	328522	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram	M	BJP	325685
1998	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Puglia Nareshkumar Chunnalal	M	INC	450007	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram	M	BJP	299652
1996	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Ahir Hansaraj Gangaram	M	BJP	253679	Potdukhe Shantaram Rajeshwar	M	INC	157548
1991	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Potdukhe Shantaram	M	INC	212948	Temurde Moreshwar Vithalrao	M	JD	125251
1989	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Potdukhe Shantaram Rajeshwar	M	INC	243854	Mungantiwar Sudhir Sachidanand	M	BJP	193397
1984	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Potdukhe Shantaram Rajeshwar	M	INC	249994	Dada Deshkar	M	BJP	60839
1980	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Shantaram Potdukhe	M	INC(I)	206400	Raje Vishweshwarrao	M	JNP	133510
1977	26	Chandrapur	GEN	Raje Vishveshvarrao	M	BLD	209974	Abdul Shafee	M	INC	120988

List of Assembly Constituencies in Chandrapur Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Chandrapur parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Rajura	Chandrapur (SC)	Ballarpur
Warora	Wani	Arni (ST)