Latur City Assembly constituency

Latur City Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is located in the Latur district. It is the 16th largest city in Maharashtra with the district headquarters located in the city. The district comes under Marathwada region of Maharashtra, geographically located between 17°52′ North to 18°50′ North and 76°18′ East to 79°12′ East in the Deccan plateau. It has an average elevation of 631 metres (2,070 ft) above mean sea level. The entire district is on the Balaghat plateau, 540 to 638 metres from the mean sea level.

Latur City
Constituency No. 235 for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Maharashtra
District	Latur
LS constituency	Latur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Amit Deshmukh
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Cabinet Minister for Medical education & Cultural affairs, Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh is the current MLA of the constituency, representing the Indian National Congress.

History

After the delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies in 2008, the erstwhile Latur Assembly constituency was divided into Latur City and Latur Rural constituencies.

In Latur City Assembly constituency the Indian National Congress is the strongest party.

Vilasrao Deshmukh, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, represented the seat five times in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was elected for three consecutive terms from the seat till 1995. From 1999, he was elected for two consecutive terms until 2008.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
As Latur Vidhan Sabha Seat, from 1957 to 2004
1957	Keshavrao Sonawane		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	V. R. Kaldate		Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Shivraj Patil		Indian National Congress
1978
1980	Vilasrao Deshmukh
1985
1990
1995	Shivajirao Patil Kavhekar		Janata Dal
1999	Vilasrao Deshmukh		Indian National Congress
2004
Seat bifurcated into Latur City and Latur Rural, in the year 2008.
2009	Amit Deshmukh		Indian National Congress
2014
2019
2024

Election results

2024

2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Latur City

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh	114,110	45.08	7.4
	BJP	Archana Patil Chakurkar	106712	42.16	8.76
	VBA	Vinod Somprakash Khatke	26616	10.51	1.11
	NOTA	None of the above	642	0.25	0.09
Majority			7398	2.92
Turnout			253135	62.74
	INC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Latur City

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh	111,156	52.48	6.34
	BJP	Shailesh Govindkumar Lahoti	70,741	33.40	1.1
	VBA	Rajasab Bashumiya Maniyar	24,604	11.62	New
	NOTA	None of the above	727	0.34
Majority			40,415	19.08
Turnout			2,11,948	56.90
	INC hold		Swing

2014

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Latur City

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amit Deshmukh	119,656	58.82	6.34
	BJP	Shailesh Govindkumar Lahoti	70,191	34.50	New
	NCP	Murtujkhan Basidkhan Pathan	4,047	1.99	New
	SS	Shripad Kulkarni	2,323	1.14	10.29
	BSP	Raghunath Waghoji Bansode	2,202	1.08	12.43
	NOTA	None of the Above	539	0.26
Majority			49,465	24.32
Turnout			2,03,453	61.98
	INC hold		Swing

2009

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Latur City

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amit Deshmukh	113,006	64.91
	BSP	Kayyumkhan Mohmmadkhan Pathan	23,526	13.51
	SS	Shripad Madhukarrao Kulkarni	19,905	11.43
Majority			89,480	51.40
Turnout			1,74,194	59.65
	INC gain from BSP		Swing

1962

1962 Maharashtra State Assembly election: Latur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Keshavrao Sonawane	23,049	57.15
	Independent	Ramchandra Govind	14,036	34.80
	PWPI	Digamberrao Yadavrao	2,974	7.37
Majority			9,013	22.35
Turnout			42,649	62.29
	INC hold		Swing

1957

1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly election: Latur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Keshavrao Sonawane	14,785	54.83
	Independent	Vithalrao Kelgaokar	12,178	45.17
Majority			2,607	9.67
Turnout			26,963	48.84
	INC hold		Swing