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Dapoli Assembly constituency

constituency of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5221790
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Dapoli Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.

Overview

Dapoli constituency is one of the five Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Ratnagiri district.

Before the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008, Dapoli was part of the Ratnagiri Lok Sabha constituency. After the delimitation, it became part of the Raigad Lok Sabha constituency, along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Guhagar in the Ratnagiri district and Pen, Alibag, Shrivardhan and Mahad in the Raigad district.

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“Dapoli Assembly constituency” enters the record as constituency of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dapoli, Assembly and constituency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Dapoli 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.