Chachoura Assembly constituency

Chachoura 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 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.[2]

Chachoura
Constituency No. 30 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionCentral India
StateMadhya Pradesh
DistrictGuna
LS constituencyRajgarh
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party

Incumbent MLA from Chachoura is Priyanka Penchi from Bharatiya Janata Party.

Overview

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Chachoura (constituency number 30) is one of the 4 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Guna district. This constituency covers the entire Chachaura and kumbhraj tehsil and part of maksudangarh tehsil.[3]

Chachoura is part of Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Raghogarh in this district, Narsinghgarh, Biaora, Rajgarh, Khilchipur and Sarangpur in Rajgarh district and Susner in Shajapur district.[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:

Election Name Party
1952 Dwarkadas Ramnarayan Hindu Mahasabha

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:

Election Name Party
1957 Sagar Singh Sisodia Indian National Congress
1962 Prabhu Lal Meena Independent
1967 Sagar Singh Sisodia Swatantra Party
1972 Krishna Vallabh Gupta Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Janata Party
1980 Devendra Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Ram Bahadur Singh Parihar Bharatiya Janata Party
1993 Shivnarayan Meena Indian National Congress
1994^ Digvijaya Singh
1998 Shivnarayan Meena
2003
2008
2013 Mamta Meena Bharatiya Janata Party
2018 Lakshman Singh Indian National Congress
2023 Priyanka Penchi Bharatiya Janata Party

^By poll

Election results

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2023

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2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Priyanka Meena Penchi 110,254 56.47
INC Lakshman Singh 48,684 24.93
AAP Mamta Meena 27,405 14.04
NOTA None of the Above 2,249 1.15
Majority 61,570 31.54
Turnout 82.24
BJP gain from INC Swing

2018

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2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Lakshman Singh
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
INC gain from BJP Swing

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 2015-12-01. Retrieved 13 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 2011-02-13.
  3. ^ a b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
  4. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.

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