Kothrud Assembly constituency

Kothrud
Kothrud
Constituency No. 210 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Pune
LS constituency	Pune
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Chandrakant Patil
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Kothrud Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in Western India. It is one of the twenty one constituencies of located in the Pune district and one of eight in Pune City.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It is a part of the Pune Lok Sabha constituency along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Kasba Peth, Parvati, Pune Cantonment (SC), Shivajinagar, Vadgaon Sheri from Pune City.^[4]

Kothrud Assembly Constituency came into existence by dividing Shivaji Nagar assembly constituency as well as dissolving Bhavani Peth constituency. It was not swing from Nationalist Congress Party to Shiv Sena. It is the stronghold of Shiv Sena. After division Kothrud won by Shiv Sena and Shivajinagar by Vinayak Nimhan, Indian National Congress.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2009	Chandrakant Mokate	Shiv Sena
2014	Medha Kulkarni	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Chandrakant Patil	Bharatiya Janata Party

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kothrud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Chandrakant Patil	105,246	53.93
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	79,751	40.87
	NOTA	None of the above	4,028	2.06
	VBA	Adv. Deepak Narayanrao Shamdire	2,428	1.28
Majority			25,495	13.34
Turnout			1,95,158	48.20
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kothrud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Medha Kulkarni	100,941	51.15	*N/A*
	SHS	Chandrakant Mokate	36,279	18.38	−15.26
	NCP	Baburao Chandere	28,179	14.28	+1.94
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	21,392	10.84	−18.14
	INC	Umesh Kandhare	6,713	3.40	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,583	0.80	N/A
Majority			64,662	32.77	+28.11
Turnout			1,97,338	56.57
Registered electors			3,48,846
	BJP gain from SHS		Swing

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Kothrud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SHS	Chandrakant Mokate	52,055	33.64
	MNS	Adv. Kishor Shinde	44,841	28.98
	Independent	Deepak Mankar	22,853	14.77
	NCP	Anna Joshi	19,095	12.34
	Independent	Ujwal Keskar	10,000	6.46
	BSP	Raju Sanke	1,572	1.02
Majority			5,414	4.66
Turnout			1,54,753	51.16
	SHS win (new seat)