Bijawar Assembly constituency

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Bijawar
Constituency No. 52 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionCentral India
StateMadhya Pradesh
DistrictChhatarpur
Lok Sabha constituencyTikamgarh
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2023
Preceded byPushpendra Nath Pathak

Bijawar 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]

Overview

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Bijawar (constituency number 52) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the Satai and Bijawar nagar panchayats and parts of Chhatarpur, Bijawar and Rajnagar tehsils of the district.[3]

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

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Election Name Party
1951[2] Diwan Pratap Singh Indian National Congress
Pyare Lal

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

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Election Name Party
1957[4] Gayatri Devi Indian National Congress
Hansraj
1962 Govind Singh Judev Independent politician
1967 K. Nath Indian National Congress
1972 Yadvendra Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Mukund Sakharam Janata Party
1980 Yadvendra Singh Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985 Jujhar Singh Bundela Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1993 Manvendra Singh Indian National Congress
1998
2003 Jitendra Singh Bundela Bharatiya Janata Party
2008[5] Asharani
2013 Pushpendra Nath Pathak
2018[6] Rajesh Shukla Samajwadi Party
2023 Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

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2023

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2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bijawar[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Rajesh Shukla 88,223 52.59 Increase31.21
INC Charan Singh Yadav 55,761 33.24 Increase16.83
BSP Mahendra Kumar Gupta 10,443 6.23 Decrease0.22
AAP Amit Bhatnagar 4,185 2.49 Increase1.15
ASP(KR) Chetram Ahirwar 1,885 1.12
NOTA None of the above 1,433 0.85 Increase0.39
Majority 32,462 19.35 Decrease6.05
Turnout 167,743 72.67 Increase2.47
BJP gain from SP Swing

2018

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2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bijawar[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Rajesh Shukla 67,623 46.78
BJP Pushpendra Nath Pathak 30,909 21.38
INC Shankar Pratap Singh 23,726 16.41
BSP Anupama Yadav 9,318 6.45
AAP Amit Bhatnagar 1,943 1.34
Independent Deepak Bhaiya 1,902 1.32
NOTA None of the above 663 0.46
Majority 36,714 25.4
Turnout 144,543 70.2
SP 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 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 230, 250.
  4. ^ "General Elections of MP 1957" (PDF). Election Commission of India. 2004. p. 10.
  5. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India.

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