Vandre West (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Vandre West (पश्चिम वान्द्रे) Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India, since 2008.[1] Vandre, also known as Bandra, is a suburb of Mumbai. Before the 2008 delimitation of assembly seats, this seat's area was covered under Vandre Vidhan Sabha constituency, represented by Ramdas Nayak among others.

Overview

Vandre West (constituency number 177) is one of the 26 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai Suburban district.[1] The number of electors in 2009 was 297,919 (male 155,345, female 142,574).[2]

Vandre West is part of the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Vile Parle, Chandivali, Kurla, Kalina and Vandre East in the Mumbai Suburban district.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

INC BJP

	Member	Party
Until 2008	Seat did not exist	See : Vandre seat
2009	Baba Siddique	Indian National Congress
2014	Ashish Shelar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Ashish Shelar	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

Assembly Elections 2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Vandre West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Baba Siddique	59,659	46.52
	BJP	Ashish Shelar	57,968	45.20
	Independent	Rahebar Siraj Khan	5,132	4.00
	SP	Rizwan Merchant	1,862	1.45
	BSP	Tejpal Singh Chadha	1,248	0.97
Majority			1,691	1.32
Turnout			1,28,245	43.05
	INC win (new seat)

Assembly Elections 2014

2014 Maharashtra state assembly elections: Vandre West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashish Shelar	74,779	50.93	+5.73
	INC	Baba Siddique	47,868	32.60	-13.91
	SHS	Vilas Chawri	14,156	9.64	N/A
	MNS	Tushar Aphale	3,116	2.12	N/A
	NCP	Asif Bhamla	2,387	1.63	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,535	1.05	N/A
Majority			26,911	18.33	+17.02
Turnout			1,46,830	51.23	+8.18
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+9.82

References

"District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
"General Elections to State Legislative Assembly 2009" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

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[ceo-1] "District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

[2] "General Elections to State Legislative Assembly 2009" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2010.