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Bhandara Assembly constituency

constituency of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4900967 ↗
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Bhandara Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies in Maharashtra state in central India. This constituency is one of the three constituencies located in Bhandara district.

Overview

Bhandara is part of the Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Sakoli and Tumsar in the Bhandara district and Gondiya, Arjuni Morgaon and Tirora in the Gondia district.

Geographical boundaries

The current constituency comprises the whole of Bhandara and Pauni Tehsils including Bhandara and Pauni municipalities.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bhandara Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.