Dhule Rural Assembly Constituency West is one of the 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra state in India. Which is situated in Dhule district. It is part of the Dhule Lok Sabha constituency along with other five assembly constituencies, namely Dhule city and Sindhkheda in Dhule district and Malegaon Central, Malegaon Outer and Baghlan in Nashik district. This is a general category assembly seat. From where Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Ram Bhadane. Presently Kunalbaba Rohidas Patil of Congress is the MLA from this seat. Located in Dhule district, this seat is one of the 6 assembly constituencies of Dhule Parliament seat.
Know the caste equations of Dhule villagers
A total of 3 assembly elections have been held on this seat reserved for the general category, out of which Congress has captured this seat twice. According to the data of 2019 assembly elections, the total number of voters here is 368094. At the same time, the number of SC voters is 28,527 which is approximately 7.75% according to the 2011 census. Talking about the number of ST voters, it is approximately 80686 which is approximately 21.92%. At the same time, the number of Muslim voters in this seat is approximately 6,994 which is approximately 1.9% according to the voter list analysis.
What is the history of Dhule Rural Assembly seat?
Assembly elections have been held thrice so far on this assembly seat, which came into existence in 2008. Shiv Sena won this seat in the 2009 elections. In the remaining two elections (2014, 2019), Congress was in control here.
Possible equations of 2024?
At present Congress has dominance over Dhule seat. Congress has won this seat in the last two consecutive elections, hence in the upcoming elections Congress will make full efforts to win this seat again. However, to give it a tough fight, BJP and Shiv Sena will be the main parties in the electoral fray. Candidates from independent and other parties will also try to give tough competition to their rivals on this seat. In the 2019 elections, Congress faced a tough fight from BJP.
Congress had won by 14564 votes. In such a situation, there is expected to be a close contest between BJP and Congress for this seat in the coming elections. It will be interesting to see whether Congress is able to win from here this time or not. It will also be interesting to see whether this time BJP will be able to open its account on this seat or not.