Colaba Assembly constituency

Colaba
Colaba
Constituency No. 187 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai City
LS constituency	Mumbai South
Established	1962
Total electors	2,64,739(2024)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Rahul Narwekar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Colaba Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state within Mumbai City in western India.^[1] Rahul Narwekar of the BJP is currently the MLA of Colaba Constituency

Overview

Colaba (constituency number 187) is one of the 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai City district.^[2] The number of electors in 2009 was 275,033 (male 159,519, female 115,514) 71,932 are from minority community.^[3]

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.^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
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 (I)
1985	Marzban Patrawala	Indian National Congress
1990	Marzban Patrawala
1995	Ashok Dhatrak
1999	Marzban Patrawala
2000	Dinaz Patrawala	Shiv Sena
2004	Annie Shekhar	Indian National Congress
Major boundary changes^[5]
2009	Annie Shekhar	Indian National Congress
2014	Raj K. Purohit	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Rahul Narwekar
2024	Rahul Narwekar

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rahul Narwekar	81,085	68.49	+14.64
	INC	Heera Navji Devasi	32,504	27.46	−11.20
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,993	1.68	−1.06
Majority			48,581	41.03	+25.42
Turnout			1,18,389
	BJP hold		Swing	+14.64

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Rahul Narwekar	57,420	53.85
	INC	Ashok "Bhai" Jagtap	41,225	38.66
	VBA	Jitendra Ramchandra Kamble	3,011	2.82
	NOTA	None of the above	2,921	2.74
	IND	Santosh Gopinath Chavan	667	0.63
Majority			16,195	15.61
Turnout			1,07,025	40.15
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raj K. Purohit	52,608	44.86	+12.70
	SS	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
	NOTA	None of the above	1,516	1.29	N/A
Majority			23,787	20.29	+12.12
Turnout			1,17,289	46.19
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2009

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
Majority			8,057	8.17
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

1962

1962 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Colaba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Kalaram Shankar Dharia	19,351	53.89
	SWA	Phiroze Jamshedji Shroff	7,073	19.70
	CPI(M)	Penambur Vishnu Narayan Upadhyay	5,157	14.36
	SOPA	Palkat Chandy Cherian	2,166	6.03
	ABJS	Murlidhar Vishidas Mulchandani	2,159	6.01
Majority			12,278	34.19
Turnout			37,087	53.27
	INC hold		Swing

References

^ "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.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 267.
^ "General Elections to State Legislative Assembly 2009" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 278.
^ Kuber, Girish (25 February 2008). "Delimit and rule: One Mumbai MP will move to the suburbs". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

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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 11 November 2010.

[2] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 267.

[3] "General Elections to State Legislative Assembly 2009" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2011.

[4] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 278.

[5] Kuber, Girish (25 February 2008). "Delimit and rule: One Mumbai MP will move to the suburbs". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

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