Amravati Election 2024: Constituency details, candidates list, results and more

Amravati will go to vote in a single phase on November 20 and the results wlll be declared on Nov 23. (PTI ohoto)

The Amravati Assembly constituency is one of the most fiercely-contested seats in the Maharashtra Assembly elections this time. A general category seat, the Amravati Assembly constituency is a part of the Amravati Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha assembly constituencies - Badnera, Teosa, Daryapur (SC), Melghat (ST) and Achalpur.

In the 2019 elections, Sulbha Sanjay Khodke of the Indian National Congress secured a win in Amravati with 82,581 votes, defeating Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh of BJP by a margin of 18,268 votes.

The constituency will go to polls on November 20 and the results will be declared on November 23.

Amravati Assembly Constituency

The Amravati constituency is located in the Amravati district, which has 25,03,884 registered voters, including 12,77,358 male voters, 12,26,432 female voters, and 94 third gender voters. It is an unreserved seat.

According to the state Chief Election Commission, as many as 322 polling stations will be set up in the Amravati Assembly constituency. Overall, more than 1 lakh polling stations will be set up across Maharashtra for the 2024 Assembly elections.

Amravati Assembly Constituency Candidates List 2024

DR. Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh - INC
Megha Dnyaneshwar Tayde - BSP
Sulbha Sanjay Khodke - NCP
Irfan Khan Usman Khan - IUML
Rahul Liladhar Meshram - VBA
Alim Patel Mo. Waheed - ASPKR
Merajunnisa Abdul Shakil - RPI(A)
Avinash Dhanwate - PPID
Digambar Waman Bhagat - JJWP
DR. Abrar - PHJSP
Pappu alias Mangesh Madhukar Patil - MNS
Sheikh Rahmat Sheikh Inayat - IND
Hemant Nandkishorrao Watane - IND
Jagdish Gupta - IND
Ritesh Ramesh Telmore - IND
Ramkrishna Adkuji Mahajan - IND
Megha Dnyaneshwar Tayde - IND
Mohammad Nisar Mohammad Yusuf - IND
Vikesh Gokulrao Gawale - IND
Shaikh Yusuf Shaikh Husain - IND

Amravati Current MLA

Sulbha Sanjay Khodke of the Indian National Congress is the sitting MLA from the Amravati Assembly constituency.

Amravati Election: What happened in 2019 and 2014?

In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Amravati constituency had 3,41,728 registered voters but only saw 1,70,779 votes cast—a turnout of 50.0 percent.

2019 winner: Sulbha Sanjay Khodke (INC)2014 winner: DR. Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh (BJP)

Amravati Election 2024: Voting and Result Date

The Amravati Assembly constituency will go to polls on November 20 along with the 287 other Assembly constituencies in the state. Voting on all Assembly seats in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase on November 20 and the results will be declared on November 23. The term of the current Maharashtra legislative assembly ends on November 26.

Amravati Assembly Election 2024 Significance

The Assembly elections in Maharashtra comes after five years of political turbulence in the state. Since the previous Assembly elections, the Shiv Sena and the NCP have both seen vertical splits and being divided into two factions each.

While the Shiv Sena and the BJP contested the elections together the last time and won a clear majority, they could not form a government in the state after their alliance came undone. The Shiv Sena then joined hands with the NCP and Congress and the government was formed.

However, less than halfway into its term, the government fell after a split in the Shiv Sena that saw Eknath Shinde become Chief Minister. A year later, a split in the NCP saw Ajit Pawar also join the government with a significant chunk of MLAs.