Opera House Assembly constituency

Opera House
Opera House
Former constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
Lok Sabha constituency	Mumbai South
Established	1951
Abolished	2008

Opera House Vidhan Sabha constituency was one of the 288 constituencies in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai area, in India. The constituency existed until the 2004 elections and was part of Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency. It became defunct after the constituency map was redrawn.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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Year	Member^[5]
1978	Jayawantiben Mehta	Janata Party
1980	Jayawantiben Mehta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Chandrashekhar Prabhu	Indian National Congress
1990	Chandrakant Padwal	Shiv Sena
1995
1999
2004	Arvind Nerkar
2008 onwards : Constituency defunct

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Arvinda Nerkar	24,968	56.54%	5.81
	INC	Kisan Jadhav	17,948	40.65%	0.20
	SP	Ketan Arun Kadm	854	1.93%	New
	BSP	Joseph Bavatis Rodriques	386	0.87%	New
Margin of victory			7,020	15.90%	5.60
Turnout			44,156	48.32%	2.17
Total valid votes			44,156
Registered electors			91,377		4.34
	SS hold		Swing	5.81

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Chandrakant Shankar Padwal	22,363	50.74%	13.33
	INC	Kisan Baburao Jadhav	17,826	40.44%	9.39
	NCP	Rajendra Raju Maganlal Merchant	3,424	7.77%	New
	Independent	Thakur Vasant Krishna Advocate	463	1.05%	New
Margin of victory			4,537	10.29%	22.73
Turnout			44,082	46.15%	13.83
Total valid votes			44,076
Registered electors			95,522		1.06
	SS hold		Swing	13.33

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Chandrakant Shankar Padwal	36,321	64.07%	11.38
	INC	Sujata Dhawale	17,602	31.05%	4.76
	Independent	Dinesh Panchal	1,089	1.92%	New
	Independent	Sudhakar Keshav Sawant	687	1.21%	New
	Independent	Sukri Habib Abdulkader	477	0.84%	New
	Independent	Devji Jethalal Charla	409	0.72%	New
Margin of victory			18,719	33.02%	16.14
Turnout			57,483	60.82%	5.33
Total valid votes			56,691
Registered electors			94,518		8.54
	SS hold		Swing	11.38

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SS	Chandrakant Shankar Padwal	29,757	52.69%	*New*
	INC	Prabhu Chandrashekhar	20,222	35.81%	10.18
	JD	Solanki Avinash Mithalal	5,812	10.29%	New
Margin of victory			9,535	16.88%	1.33
Turnout			56,920	55.08%	6.40
Total valid votes			56,477
Registered electors			1,03,343		0.02
	SS gain from INC		Swing	6.70

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Chandrashekhar Prabhu	22,934	45.98%	*New*
	Independent	Gajanan Damodar Vartak	13,850	27.77%	New
	BJP	Kirit Somaiya	11,910	23.88%	37.45
	Independent	Shantaram S. Brid	869	1.74%	New
Margin of victory			9,084	18.21%	5.32
Turnout			50,315	48.68%	11.33
Total valid votes			49,873
Registered electors			1,03,368		2.93
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	15.35

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jayawantiben Navinchandra Mehta	24,113	61.33%	*New*
	INC(I)	Brid Shantaram Sakharam	14,861	37.80%	32.81
	Independent	Nagare Bhaskar Bhikaji	341	0.87%	New
Margin of victory			9,252	23.53%	14.26
Turnout			39,646	37.23%	28.46
Total valid votes			39,315
Registered electors			1,06,491		2.03
	BJP gain from JP		Swing	0.05

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Jayawantiben Navinchandra Mehta	43,625	61.38%	*New*
	SS	Pramod Navalkar	16,768	23.59%	New
	INC	Ankleshwaria Ramanlal Chhotalal	7,128	10.03%	New
	INC(I)	P. N. Shah	3,547	4.99%	New
Margin of victory			26,857	37.79%
Turnout			71,994	66.23%
Total valid votes			71,068
Registered electors			1,08,701
	JP win (new seat)