Amravati Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in India

Amravati
Constituency No. 38 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Amravati
LS constituency	Amravati
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sulbha Sanjay Khodke
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2019

Amravati Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the eight which are located in the Amravati district.

It is a part of the Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies, viz. Badnera, Teosa, Daryapur (SC), Melghat (ST) and Achalpur.^[1]

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 38 Amravati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: 1. Amravati Tehsil (Part), Amravati (M.Corp.) – Ward No. 1 to 5, 19 to 31, 41 to 56 and 62 to 71 of the district.^[2]

In 2019 Sulbha Sanjay Khodke defeated incumbent Sunil Deshmukh To become MLA. Indian National Congress is the most successful party in this constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
1962	Umerlalji Kedia	Indian National Congress
1967	K. N. Nawathe
1972	Dattatray Metkar
1978	Surendra Bhuyar	Indian National Congress
1980	Surendra Bhuyar	Indian National Congress
1985	Devisingh Shekhawat	Indian National Congress
1990	Jagdish Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Jagdish Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Sunil Deshmukh	Indian National Congress
2004	Sunil Deshmukh
2009	Raosaheb Shekhawat
2014	Sunil Deshmukh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Sulbha Khodke	Indian National Congress

Election results

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Amravati^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	INC	Sulbha Sanjay Khodke	82,582
	BJP	Deshmukh Sunil Punjabrao	64,313
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

Previous elections

Year	A C No.	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	38	Dr. Deshmukh Sunil Panjabrao	M	BJP	84033	Raosaheb Shekhawat	M	INC	48961
2009	38	Raosaheb Shekhawat	M	INC	61331	Dr. Deshmukh Sunil Panjabrao	M	IND	55717
2004	124	Dr. Deshmukh Sunil Panjabrao	M	INC	81698	Jagdish Gupta	M	BJP	49435
1999	124	Dr. Deshmukh Sunil Panhjabrao	M	INC	57270	Gupta Jagdish Motilal	M	BJP	47400
1995	124	Jagdish Motilal Gupta	M	BJP	71845	Mujaffar Ahmad Mo. Yusuf	M	IND	22509
1990	124	Jagdish Gupta	M	BJP	35319	Pushpatai Vijay Bonde	F	INC	31133
1985	124	Shekhawat Devisingh Ramsingh	M	INC	37330	Chandrabha	F	ICS	15612
1980	124	Bhuyar Surendra Chatrapal	M	INC(I)	29712	Sawalakhe Sudhakar Ramchandra	M	INC(U)	14155
1978	124	Bhuyar Surendra Chhatrapal	M	INC(I)	38507	Munirkhan Usmankhan	M	JNP	20296
1972	114	Dattatraya Nagorao Metkar	M	INC	41157	Kolhe Satappa Shioappa	M	BJS	4505
1967	114	K.N. Nawathe	M	INC	21634	B.D. Karanjikar	M	SSP	20663
1962	178	Umerlalji Mathuradas Kedia	M	INC	27838	Gopal Dattatray kaloti	M	IND	20878

Source:^[4]

Notes

^ "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
^ "Schedule – XVII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule XVII Maharashtra, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
^ "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
^ "Live Amravati (Maharastra) Assembly Election Results 2019 Updates, Winner, Runner-up Candidates 2019 Updates, Vidhan Sabha Current MLA and Previous MLAs".