Rajapur was a
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...
parliamentary
constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
. It was abolished in 2008 and merged with some other Vidhan Sabha constituency, to form a new Lok Sabha seat territorially, called
Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
Members of Parliament
Election results
1991 Lok Sabha
* Sudhir Sawant (Congress) : 157,135
* Vamanrao Mahadik (Shiv Sena) : 114,089
* Madhu Dandavate (Janata Dal) : Came third.
1996 Lok Sabha
* Suresh Prabhu (Shiv Sena) : 193,566
* Sudhir Sawant (Congress) : 127,430
2004
See also
*
Rajapur
*
Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency
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Former Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra
Former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
2008 disestablishments in India
Constituencies disestablished in 2008