Kasba Peth Assembly constituency

Indian constituency

Kasba Peth
Constituency No. 215 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Pune District
LS constituency	Pune Lok Sabha constituency
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ravindra Dhangekar
Party	INC
Elected year	2023

Kasba Peth Assembly constituency is one of the constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, in India.^[1] It is constituency is located in the Pune district and is a segment of Pune (Lok Sabha constituency).

It was considered a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party, as it had elected BJP MLAs from 1995 to 2019, however the constituency elected the Indian National Congress politician Ravindra Dhangekar in a by-poll in 2023, upturning this trend.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
1957	Vishnu Chitale	Communist Party of India
1962	Baburao Sanas	Indian National Congress
1967	R. V. Telang
1972	Lilaba Merchant
1978	Arvind Lele	Janata Party
1980	Arvind Lele	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Ulhas Kalokhe	Indian National Congress
1990	Anna Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party
1991^	Vasant Vithoba Thorat	Indian National Congress
1995	Girish Bapat	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2004
2009
2014
2019	Mukta Tilak
2023^	Ravindra Dhangekar	Indian National Congress ^[2]^[3]^[4]

Bypoll Election denoted by ^

Election results

2023 by-election

2023 elections in India: Kasba Peth^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ravindra Hemraj Dhangekar	73,309	52.98	+21.46
	BJP	Hemant Narayan Rasane	62,394	45.09	-5.21
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,401	1.01
Majority			10,915
Turnout			1,38,403	50.20	-1.43
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kasba Peth^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mukta Shailesh Tilak	75,492	50.3
	INC	Arvind Shinde	47,296	31.52
	Independent	Vishal Dhanwade	13,989	9.32	N/A
	MNS	Ajay Shinde	8,284	5.52
	NOTA	None of the above	2,532	1.69	N/A
Majority			28,196	19.11
Turnout			1,50,093	51.63
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kasba Peth^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girish Bapat	73,594	43.44	+8.10
	INC	Rohit Tilak	31,322	18.49	-11.54
	MNS	Ravindra Dhangekar	25,998	15.35	-14.74
	NCP	Deepak Mankar	15,865	9.37	N/A
	Independent	Suryakant Aandekar	10,001	5.90	N/A
	SHS	Prashant Badhe	9,203	5.43	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,371	0.81	N/A
Majority			42,272	24.95	+19.70
Turnout			1,69,399	62.11	+10.33
	BJP hold		Swing

2009 results

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kasba Peth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girish Bapat ^[9]	54,982	35.34	-20.47
	MNS	Ravindra Dhangekar	46,820	30.09
	INC	Rohit Tilak	46,728	30.03
	BSP	Satish Mohol	1,396	0.90
	SP	Anis Ahmmad	1,110	0.71
	ABHM	Milind Ekbote	1,027	0.66
Majority			8,162	5.25
Turnout			1,55,587	51.78
	BJP hold		Swing

2004 result

2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kasba Peth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Girish Bapat	38,160	55.81
	NCP	Anna Thorat	28,542	41.74
	ABHM	Himani Savarkar	1,158	1.69
	Independent	Vijay Tikone	516	0.75
Majority			9,618	14.07
Turnout			68,376	54.83
	BJP hold		Swing

References

^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ Deccan Herald (2 March 2023). "Congress breaches BJP bastion of Kasba Peth in Pune". Archived from the original on 3 March 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
^ The Week (2 March 2023). "Maharashtra bypolls: BJP loses its bastion Kasba Peth to Congress". Retrieved 30 March 2023.
^ The Hindu (2 March 2023). "Maharashtra Assembly bypolls | Congress' Ravindra Dhangekar defeats BJP's Hemant Rasane in Kasaba Peth". Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^ "Pune by-polls: 11 nominations invalid in Kasba Peth constituency".
^ "Election Commission of India". 2 March 2023. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
^ "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
^ "Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election, 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ "Maharashtra Assembly Election Results in 2009". elections.in. Retrieved 25 June 2020.