Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh Assembly constituency

Chhatarpur Assembly constituency 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 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.^[2]

Chhatarpur
Constituency No. 51 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Chhatarpur
LS constituency	Tikamgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Lalita Yadav
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Overview

Chhatarpur (constituency number 51) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the Chhatarpur municipality and part of Chhatarpur tehsil of the district.^[3]

Chhatarpur is part of Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Maharajpur and Bijawar in this district and Jatara, Prithvipur, Niwari, Tikamgarh and Khargapur in Tikamgarh district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

As from a constituency of Vindhya Pradesh:

• 1951: Govinda, Indian National Congress / Panna Lal, Indian National Congress^[2]

As from a constituency of Madhya Pradesh:

• 1957: Govind Das, Indian National Congress / Dasrath, Indian National Congress
• 1962: Ram Swaroop, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
• 1967: Mahendra Kumar, Indian National Congress
• 1972: Mahendra Kumar, Indian National Congress
• 1977: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam, Janata Party
• 1980: Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela, Indian National Congress
• 1985: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam, Janata Party
• 1990: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam, Janata Dal
• 1993: Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela, Indian National Congress
• 1998: Umesh Shukla, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2003: Vikram Singh, Samajwadi Party
• 2008: Lalita Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party^[4]
• 2013: Lalita Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party

Election	Name	Party
2018	Alok Chaturvedi[5]		Indian National Congress
2023	Lalita Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chhatarpur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC
	BJP	Lalita Yadav
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chhatarpur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Alok Chaturvedi
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	INC gain from		Swing

See also

• Chhatarpur

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 4.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 230, 250.
4. "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
5. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
6. "BJP releases first list of candidates for 39 seats in MP". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 18 August 2023.

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