Akole Akole is a city and Taluka in Akole tehsil, Ahmednagar district in the state of Maharashtra, India. Akole is surrounded by the Sahyadri Mountains of Western Ghats, India. Several historical sites in the city honor Akole's connection to the h ...

Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the seats in

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 memb ...

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. It is a segment of

Shirdi Shirdi (; also known as Sainagar) is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the Rahata taluka of Ahmednagar District. It is accessible via the Ahmednagar–Malegaon State Highway No.10, approximately from Ahmednagar and ...

lok Sabha seat. Both Akole assembly and Shirdi parliamentary seats came into existence after constituency map of India was redrawn in 2008.

Overview

Akole (constituency number 216) is one of the twelve Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the

Ahmednagar district Ahmednagar district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, �ɦ(ə)məd̪nəɡəɾ is the largest districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra state in western India. The historical Ahmednagar city is the headquarters of the district. ...

. It comprises part of Sangamner tehsil and the entire Akole tehsil of the district.

is part of the

Shirdi Lok Sabha constituency Shirdi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the President ...

along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in this district, namely

Sangamner Sangamner is a city and a municipal council located in the Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra state in India. It derives its name from the site of the ''sangam'' (confluence) of three rivers in the area: Pravara, Mhalungi, and Adhala. It is o ...

Kopargaon Kopargaon is a town and municipality located in the Ahmednagar district of the Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are f ...

Shrirampur Shrirampur is a city and a municipal council located in the Ahmednagar district of the Indian state of Maharashtra situated at 19.62 N, 74.66 E in western Maharashtra Climate Shrirampur has a tropical wet and dry climate with average tempera ...

and

Nevasa Nevasa is a city in Nevasa tehsil of Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Old name of this place are Nidhinivas, Nivas and Mahalaya Also town of lord Kuber. Sant Dnyaneshwar Temple is main temple. This place is near of Prav ...

. It is reserved for the candidates belonging to the

Scheduled tribes The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

Members of Vidhan Sabha

* Until 2008 : Seat did not exist * 2009 : Madhukar Pichad, (NCP) * 2014 : Vaibhav Pichad, (NCP) * 2019 : Kiran Lahamate, (NCP)

Election Results

2019

2009

* Pichad Madhukar Kashinath (NCP) : 60,043 votes * Talpade Madhukar Shankar (SHS) : 50,964

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