Jawad Assembly constituency

Jawad is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.^[2]

Jawad
Constituency No. 230 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Neemuch
LS constituency	Mandsaur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Om Prakash Sakhlecha
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2018

Overview

Jawad (constituency number 230) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Neemuch district. This constituency covers the entire Jawad tehsil of the district.^[3]

Jawad is part of Mandsaur Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Manasa and Neemuch in this district, Jaora in Ratlam district and Mandsaur, Malhargarh, Suwasra and Garoth in Mandsaur district.^[3]

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Year	Name	Party
1952	Badri Datt[2]		Indian National Congress
1957	Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962
1967
1972	Kanhiyalal Nagauri		Indian National Congress
1977	Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha		Janata Party
1980			Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Chunnilal Dhakad		Indian National Congress
1990	Duli Chand		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ghanshyam Patidar		Indian National Congress
1998
2003	Om Prakash Sakhlecha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008
2013
2018
2023

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jawad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Om Prakash Sakhlecha	60458	38
	INC	Samandar Patel	58094	36.51
	Independent	Ahir Puranmal	36151	22.72
	NOTA	None of the Above	1315	0.83
Majority			2364	1.49
Turnout
	BJP hold		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jawad^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Om Prakash Sakhlecha
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 Vidhan Sabha

• Ghanshyam Patidar (INC) : 55,502 votes ^[5]
• Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha (IND) : 46,609

1967 Vidhan Sabha

• Virendrakumar (Jana Sangh) : 21,882 votes ^[6]
• Jagjeewan (INC) : 18,632

See also

• Jawad

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 249, 251.
4. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
5. "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1998". www.elections.in.
6. "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1967". www.elections.in.

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