Colaba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Colaba Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.[1]

Overview

Colaba (constituency number 187) is one of the ten Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai City district.[2]

Colaba is part of the Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in Mumbai City district, namely Worli, Shivadi, Byculla, Malabar Hill and Mumbadevi.[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  INC     Independent     JP     INC(I)     BJP  

Election		Member	Party
	1962	Kalaram Dharia	Indian National Congress
	1967	B. B. K. Bawan	Independent
	1972	Aloo Jal Chibber	Indian National Congress
	1978	Ranjit Bhanu	Janata Party
	1980	O. P. Bahl	Indian National Congress (Indira)
	1985	Marzban Patrawala	Indian National Congress
	1990
	1995	Ashok Dhatrak
	1999	Marzban Patrawala
	2004	Annie Shekhar
	2009
	2014	Raj K. Purohit	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2019	Rahul Narwekar

Election results

2014 results

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Raj K. Purohit	52,608	44.86	+12.70
	SHS	Pandurang Sakpal	28,821	24.57	N/A
	INC	Annie Shekhar	20,410	17.40	-22.93
	NCP	Bashir Patel	5,966	5.09	N/A
	MNS	Arvind Gawde	5,453	4.65	-18.42
	BSP	Ramesh Kamble	721	0.61	-0.27
	Independent	Santosh Chavan	497	0.42	N/A
	IUML	Mohammad Taiyab Ibrahim	398	0.34	N/A
	BMP	Ashok Meshram	336	0.29	N/A
	BVA	Sanjay Nakte	157	0.13	N/A
	Independent	Surendra Kumar Jain	113	0.10	-0.04
	PWP	Deshappa Rathod	99	0.08	N/A
	Independent	Bernard Chaves	96	0.08	N/A
	Independent	Mohd. Zubair Shaikh	92	0.08	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,516	1.29	N/A
Majority			23,787	20.29	+12.12
Turnout			1,17,283	47.18	+10.32
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2009 results

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Annie Shekhar	39,779	40.33
	BJP	Raj K. Purohit	31,722	32.16
	MNS	Arvind Gawde	22,756	23.07
	BSP	Ilyas Khan	865	0.88
	RPI(A)	Manohar Jadhav	685	0.69
	Independent	Shahbaz Khan	663	0.67
	Independent	Kantibhai Patel	562	0.57
	Independent	Shailesh Pawar	508	0.52
	Independent	Minoo Nallawalla	309	0.31
	Independent	Narayanrao Alve	168	0.17
	Independent	L. D. Mendes	166	0.17
	Independent	Rushant Vartak	156	0.16
	Independent	Mohammed Asif Lakhani	150	0.15
	Independent	Surendra Kumar Jain	138	0.14
Majority			8,057	8.17
Turnout			98,627	36.86
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Colaba
• List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha

References

1. "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 267.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 278.