Abhanpur Assembly constituency

Abhanpur
Constituency No. 53 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Raipur
LS constituency	Raipur
Established	2008
Total electors	214,002 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Indra Kumar Sahu
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023

Abhanpur is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} It is in Raipur district. The seat has formed after the demolition of Raipur Town Vidhansabha Constituency in 2008. As of 2023, it is represented by Indra Kumar Sahu of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madhya Pradesh Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Prior to 1961: Constituency did not exist
1962	Lakhanlal Gupta		Indian National Congress
1967	N. R. Panchhiram
1972	Chetram Parshottam		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977			Janata Party
1980	Tetku		Indian National Congress
1985	Chandra Shekhar Sahu		Bharatiya Janta Party
1990
1993	Dhanendra Sahu		Indian National Congress
1998

Chhattisgarh Assembly

Year	Member	Party
2003	Dhanendra Sahu		Indian National Congress
2008	Chandra Shekhar Sahu		Bharatiya Janta Party
2013	Dhanendra Sahu		Indian National Congress
2018 [6] [7] [8]
2023 [9]	Indra Kumar Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Abhanpur ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Indra Kumar Sahu	93,295	52.00	+19.32
	INC	Dhanendra Sahu	77,742	43.33	−3.75
	JCC	Makhan Lal Tamrakar	2,379	1.33	−11.75
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,087	1.16	−0.68
Majority			15,553	8.67	−5.73
Turnout			179,427	83.84	−0.10
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Abhanpur ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dhanendra Sahu	76,761	47.08
	BJP	Chandra Shekhar Sahu	53,290	32.68
	JCC	Dayaram Nishad	21,324	13.08
	Independent	Brahmanand Sahu	2,249	1.38
	Independent	Shweta Rakesh Sahu	2,040	1.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,005	1.84
Majority			23,471	14.40
Turnout			163,055	83.94

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Raipur district

References

1. "State Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh" . Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
3. "New Maps of Assembly Constituency". ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
4. "Chhattisgarh 2013". myneta.info. National Election Watch. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
5. "List of Assembly Constituencies". CEO CG. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
6. "State Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
7. "Constituency: Abhanpur (53)". Empowering India Org.
8. "Raipur-Rural(Chhattisgarh) Assembly Constituency Elections". Elections IN. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
9. "Election Commission of India".
10. "BJP releases first list of 21 candidates for Chhattisgarh". The Times of India. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

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