Umarkhed (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Umarkhed (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 288 constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in the Yavatmal district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is reserved for Scheduled Caste candidate.

It is a part of the Hingoli (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other Vidhan Sabha constituencies, viz Basmath, Kalamnuri and Hingoli from Hingoli district and Kinwat and Hadgaon from Nanded district.

The remaining constituencies from Yavatmal district, Ralegaon(ST), Yavatmal(ST), Digras and Pusad are part of Yavatmal-Washim (Lok Sabha constituency) while Wani and Arni(SC) are part of Chandrapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

As of 2008, the constituency comprised the entire Umarkhed taluka and three revenue circles, Gunj, Mahagaon and Morath of the Mahagaon taluka.[2]

See also

Umarkhed

Notes
  1. "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2010.
  2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Electoral Commission of India, New Delhi. p. 255. Retrieved 20 January 2010.


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