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Palghar (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Existence
  
2008–present

Current MP
  
Chintaman Vanga

Total Electors
  
1,578,077

Party
  
Bharatiya Janata Party

Male electors
  
830,432

Reservation
  
Scheduled Tribes

Elected Year
  
2014

Member of parliament
  
Chintaman Vanaga

State
  
Maharashtra

Female electors
  
747,645

Assembly Constituencies
  
Dahanu, Vikramgad, Palghar, Boisar, Nalasopara, and Vasai.

Last election
  
Indian general election, 2014

Assembly segments
  
Boisar, Vikramgad, Nalasopara, Palghar, Vasai, Dahanu

Palghar Lok Sabha constituency (Marathi: पालघर लोकसभा मतदारसंघ) 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 Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. The seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribes. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Baliram Sukur Jadhav of Bahujan Vikas Aghadi. As of the 2014 election, Chintaman Vanaga of the Bharatiya Janata Party represents this constituency in the Lok Sabha.

Contents

Map of Palghar, Maharashtra

Assembly segments

Palghar Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These segments are:

Members of Parliament

Key

 Bahujan Vikas Aghadi    BJP  

References

Palghar (Lok Sabha constituency) Wikipedia