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{{Short description|Constituency of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2017}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name                   = Colaba
| constituency_no        = 187
| type                   = SLA
| state                  = [[Maharashtra]]
| latest_election_year    = [[2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|2019]]
| map_image              = 187-Colaba.svg
| loksabha_cons          = [[Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency|Mumbai South]]
| district               = [[Mumbai City district|Mumbai City]]
| established = 1962
| reservation            = None 
| mla                    = [[Rahul Narwekar (politician)|Rahul Narwekar]] 
| party                  = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| incumbent_image        =
| alliance               = 
| electors               = 
}}
'''Colaba Assembly constituency''' is one of the 288 [[Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha|Vidhan Sabha]] (legislative assembly) constituencies of [[Maharashtra]] state within Mumbai City in western India.<ref name=ceo>{{cite web|url=http://ceo.maharashtra.gov.in/acs.php |title=District wise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies |publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website |access-date=11 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318055304/http://ceo.maharashtra.gov.in/acs.php |archive-date=18 March 2010 |df= }}</ref> [[Rahul Narwekar]] of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] is currently the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of Colaba Constituency

==Overview==
Colaba (constituency number 187) is one of the 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the [[Mumbai City district]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|publisher=The Election Commission of India|page=267}}</ref> The number of electors in 2009 was 275,033 (male 159,519, female 115,514) 71,932 are from minority community.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://220.225.73.214/pdff/vidhanresult.pdf |title=General Elections to State Legislative Assembly 2009 |publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website |accessdate=23 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409033702/http://220.225.73.214/pdff/vidhanresult.pdf |archivedate=9 April 2011 }}</ref>

Colaba is part of the [[Mumbai South (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency]] along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in Mumbai City district, namely [[Worli Assembly constituency|Worli]], [[Shivadi Assembly constituency|Shivadi]], [[Byculla Assembly constituency|Byculla]], [[Malabar Hill Assembly constituency|Malabar Hill]] and [[Mumbadevi Assembly constituency|Mumbadevi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|publisher=The Election Commission of India|page=278}}</ref>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Member
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| [[1962 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
| Kalaram Dharia
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| [[1967 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| B. B. K. Bawan
|{{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
| [[1972 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
| Aloo Jal Chibber
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| [[1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1978]]
| Ranjit Bhanu
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
| [[1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| O. P. Bahl
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|-
| [[1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Marzban Patrawala]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=4}}
|-
| [[1990 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1990]]
|-
| [[1995 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1995]]
| [[Ashok Dhatrak]]
|-
|[[1999 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|1999]]
|[[Marzban Patrawala]]
|-
|[[2000 Bye Elections|2000]]
|[[Dinaz Patrawala]]
| {{Full party name with color|Shiv Sena|rowspan=1}}
|-
| [[2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|2004]]
| [[Annie Shekhar]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 2008
| colspan=3 align=center|<small>''Major boundary changes''</small><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kuber |first=Girish |date=2008-02-25 |title=Delimit and rule: One Mumbai MP will move to the suburbs |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/delimit-and-rule-one-mumbai-mp-will-move-to-the-suburbs/articleshow/2810878.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2024-07-15 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref>
|-
|[[2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|2009]]
| [[Annie Shekhar]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| [[2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|2014]]
| [[Raj K. Purohit]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|2019]]
|[[Rahul Narwekar (politician)|Rahul Narwekar]]
|}

==Election results==
===2019===
{{Election box begin |title=[[2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Colaba]]}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
 |party         = Bharatiya Janata Party
 |candidate = [[Rahul Narwekar]]
 |votes         = 57,420
 |percentage = 53.85
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Indian National Congress
 |candidate = [[Bhai Jagtap|Ashok "Bhai" Jagtap]]
 |votes         = 41,225
 |percentage =38.66
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi
 |candidate = Jitendra Ramchandra Kamble
 |votes         = 3,011
 |percentage =2.82
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = None of the above
 |candidate = None of the above
 |votes         = 2,921
 |percentage = 2.74
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box candidate |
 |party         = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
 |candidate = Santosh Gopinath Chavan
 |votes         =667
 |percentage = 0.63
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box majority|
 |votes         = 16,195
 |percentage = 15.61
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box turnout|
 |votes         = 1,07,025
 |percentage = 40.15
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
 |winner        = Bharatiya Janata Party
 |swing          =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2014===
{{Election box begin|
title=[[2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Colaba]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Bharatiya Janata Party
 |candidate = Raj K. Purohit
 |votes         = 52,608
 |percentage = 44.86
 |change      = +12.70
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Shiv Sena
 |candidate = [[Pandurang Sakpal]]
 |votes         = 28,821
 |percentage = 24.57
 |change      = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Indian National Congress
 |candidate = Annie Shekhar
 |votes         = 20,410
 |percentage = 17.40
 |change      = -22.93
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Nationalist Congress Party
 |candidate = Bashir Patel
 |votes         = 5,966
 |percentage = 5.09
 |change      = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
 |candidate = Arvind Gawde
 |votes         = 5,453
 |percentage = 4.65
 |change      = -18.42
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = None of the above
 |candidate = None of the above
 |votes         = 1,516
 |percentage = 1.29
 |change      = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority|
 |votes         = 23,787
 |percentage = 20.29
 |change      = +12.12
}}
{{Election box turnout|
 |votes         = 1,17,289
 |percentage = 46.19
 |change      = 
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
 |winner        = Bharatiya Janata Party
 |loser           = Indian National Congress
 |swing          =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2009===
{{Election box begin|
title=[[2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Colaba]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Indian National Congress
 |candidate  = Annie Shekhar
 |votes         = 39,779
 |percentage = 40.33
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Bharatiya Janata Party
 |candidate  = Raj K. Purohit
 |votes         = 31,722
 |percentage = 32.16
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
 |candidate  = Arvind Gawde
 |votes         = 22,756
 |percentage = 23.07
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Bahujan Samaj Party
 |candidate  = Ilyas Khan
 |votes         = 865
 |percentage = 0.88
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party         = Republican Party of India (A)
 |candidate  = Manohar Jadhav
 |votes         = 685
 |percentage = 0.69
 |change      =
}}

{{Election box majority|
 |votes         = 8,057
 |percentage = 8.17
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
 |votes         = 98,627
 |percentage = 35.86
 |change      =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
 |winner        = Indian National Congress
 |swing          =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[Colaba]]
* [[List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Mumbai City district topics}}
{{Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra}}

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