Vasai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Vasai
Vasai
Constituency details
State	Maharashtra
District	Palghar
LS constituency	Palghar
Total electors	3,04,697
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Hitendra Thakur
Party	Bahujan Vikas Aghadi
Elected year	2019

Vasai Vidhan Sabha Constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.

Overview[]

Vasai constituency is one of the six Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Palghar district. It is a non-reserved assembly constituency and part of Vasai taluka of the district.

Vasai is part of the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Dahanu, Vikramgad, Palghar, Boisar and Nalasopara in the Palghar district.

Before delimitation, Vasai Vidhan Sabha constituency was part of the Mumbai North (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly[]

Key

JP INC(I) INC Independent BVA

Election		Member	Party
	1978	Pandharinath Choudhari	Janata Party
	1980	Tarabai Vartak	Indian National Congress (Indira)
	1985	Dominic Gonsalves	Janata Party
	1990	Hitendra Thakur	Indian National Congress
	1995		Independent
	1999
	2004
Major boundary changes
	2009	Vivek Pandit	Independent
	2014	Hitendra Thakur	Bahujan Vikas Aghadi
	2019	Hitendra Thakur	Bahujan Vikas Aghadi

Election results[]

2019 results[]

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BVA	Hitendra Thakur	1,02,950	54.19	3.15
	SHS	Vijay Govind Patil	76,955	40.5
	MNS	Prafulla Narayan Thakur	3,540	1.86	0.68
	VBA	Shahid Kamal Shaikh	1,570	0.83
	BSP	Anton Victor Dicuna	1,288	0.68	0.19
	Independent	Suneel Mani Singh	666	0.35
	NOTA	None of the above	3,036	1.6	0.05
Majority			25,995	13.68	3.06
Turnout			1,90,005	62.36	3.82
Registered electors			3,04,697
	BVA hold		Swing

2014 results[]

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BVA	Hitendra Thakur	97,291	51.04	+12.67
	Independent	Vivek Pandit	65,395	34.30	-14.05
	INC	Michael Furtado	16,467	8.64	+3.47
	Independent	Manuel Tuscano	3,981	2.09	N/A
	MNS	Swapnil Nar	2,329	1.22	N/A
	BSP	Vinod Tambe	930	0.49	+0.08
	Independent	Arvind Upadhyay	677	0.36	N/A
	BMP	Sadashiv Hatkar	595	0.31	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	2,964	1.55	N/A
Majority			31,896	16.74	+6.76
Turnout			1,90,629	66.18	+3.52
Registered electors			2,88,041
	BVA gain from Independent		Swing	+13.36

2009 results[]

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vasai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Vivek Pandit	81,358	48.35
	BVA		64,560	38.37
	INC	Jimi Gonsalves	8,695	5.17
	Lok Bharati	Datta Nar	3,883	2.31
	Independent	Dominic D'Mello	3,460	2.06
	Independent	Denis Lopes	2,229	1.32
	Independent	Claid Martin	1,294	0.77
	Independent	Salman Mishal	1,184	0.70
	Independent	Thomas Almeda	900	0.53
	BSP	Vinod Tambe	691	0.41
Majority			16,798	9.98
Turnout			1,68,254	62.66
	Independent gain from Independent		Swing