Arang Assembly constituency

Arang
Constituency No. 52 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Raipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Raipur
Established	1952
Total electors	231,375 [1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Guru Khushwant Saheb
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Shivkumar Dahariya

Arang is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. ^[2]

It is part of Raipur district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes.

In 2008 delimitation, Mandirhasod Assembly constituency was merged into Arang. Currently most of the Naya Raipur comes under Arang constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1952 [a]	Sukhchain Das		Indian National Congress
	Lakhanlal Gupta
1957
	Jagmohan Das
1962
1967	Kanhaiyalal Kosariya
1972
1977	Ratandas Hardas		Janata Party
1980	Vijay Kumar Guru		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Gangu Ram Baghel		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1998			Indian National Congress
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003	Sanjay Dhidhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008 [3]	Guru Rudra Kumar		Indian National Congress
2013 [4]	Naveen Markandey		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018 [5]	Dr. Shivkumar Dahariya		Indian National Congress
2023 [6]	Guru Khushwant Saheb		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2023: Arang ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Guru Khushwant Saheb	94,039	52.59	+23.67
	INC	Shivkumar Dahariya	77,501	43.34	−1.76
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,255	1.26	+0.41
Majority			16,538	9.25	−6.93
Turnout			178,822	77.29	+0.54
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Arang ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Shivkumar Dahariya	69,900	45.10
	BJP	Sanjay Dhidhi	44,823	28.92
	JCC	Sanjay Chelak	27,903	18.00
	Independent	Sharda Banjare	3,042	1.96
	Independent	Narayan Prasad Tandan	1,528	0.99
	AAP	Dageshvar Bharti	1,423	0.92
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,112	0.85
Majority			25,077	16.18
Turnout			154,978	76.75
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

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

Notes

1. as Arang-Kharora Assembly Constituency

References

1. "State Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh" . Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
2. "New Maps of Assembly Constituency". ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
3. "State Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
4. "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
5. "Statistical data of General Election to Chhatisgarh Assembly - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
6. mint (3 December 2023). "Chhattisgarh Election Result 2023: Full list of winners from BJP and Congress". Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.

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