Sonpeth is a city and a

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...

in Parbhani district in 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 further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indepen ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

Demographics

India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Sonpeth has population of 15,765 of which 8,120 are males while 7,645 are females. Female Sex Ratio is of 942 higher than

state average of 929. 13.5% of the population is under 6 years of age. Literacy rate of Sonpeth city is 74.86% lower than state average of 82.34%. In Sonpeth, Male literacy is around 82.45% while female literacy rate is 66.94%. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 12.40% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.64% of total population in Sonpeth.

Transport

Sonpeth is located towards west from district headquarters Parbhani. Parli ,

Ambajogai Ambajogai, (also called Ambejogai or Ambanagari) is a municipal council, Tehsil and subdivision in Beed district in the state of Maharashtra, India. Ambajogai is known as cultural capital of Marathwada. The town is named as Ambajogai after ...

Beed Beed (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is a city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India. It is the administrative headquarters in Beed district. History Beed is a historical city of possibly medieval origin. Its early history is ob ...

, Dharur ,

Pathri Pathri is a town, near the city of Parbhani and a municipal council in Parbhani district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Maharashtra. It has been claimed that Pathri is the real birthplace of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Sai Baba, ...

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Manwath Manwath is a town with municipal council in Parbhani district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Demographics India census, Manwath has population of 32,488 of which 16,522 are males while 15,966 are females. Female Sex Ratio is of 966 hi ...

are the nearby cities to Sonpeth. Major city Aurangabad is and

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is from Sonpeth.

Governance

Sonpeth comes under

Parbhani (Lok Sabha constituency) Parbhani Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency covers the entire Parbhani district and a part of Jalna district. Vidhan Sabha segments At pres ...

for Indian general elections and current member of Parliament representing this constituency is

Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav, commonly known as Bandu Jadhav, is a politician with Shiv Sena from Parbhani in the Maharashtra state of India. He was elected twice, in 2004 and 2009, as MLA from Parbhani Vidhan Sabha constituency. And he was elected ...

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

. Sonpeth comes under

Pathri (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Pathri (Assembly constituency) is one of four constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the Parbhani district. It is a part of the Parbhani (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Jintur, Parb ...

for

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. Current representative from this constituency in

Maharashtra state 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 mem ...

Suresh Warpudkar Suresh Ambadasrao Warpudkar (born 15 July 1951) is an Indian politician who is the member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2019 from Pathri as an Indian National Congress candidate. He was also a minister of state in Government of Maharash ...

who was

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

Climate

References

Talukas in Maharashtra Cities and towns in Parbhani district {{Parbhani-geo-stub