Chachoura Assembly constituency

Chachoura
Constituency No. 30 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Guna
Lok Sabha constituency	Rajgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Priyanka Penchi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Lakshman Singh

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]

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

Overview

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 Agar Malwa district. ^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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^By poll	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

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Priyanka Meena Penchi	110,254	56.47	12.63
	INC	Lakshman Singh	48,684	24.93	24.86
	AAP	Mamta Meena	27,405	14.04	13.64
	NOTA	None of the above	2,249	1.15	0.41
Majority			61,570	31.54	25.59
Turnout			195,247	82.48	1.60
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakshman Singh	81,908	49.79	16.77
	BJP	Mamta Meena	72,111	43.84	13.26
	NOTA	None of the above	2,569	1.56	0.35
Majority			9,797	5.95	18.12
Turnout			164,502	80.88	6.70
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2013

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mamta Meena	82,779	57.10	31.14
	INC	Shivnarayan Meena	47,878	33.02	0.94
	BSP	Kailash Narayan Meena	4,942	3.41	6.10
	NOTA	None of the above	2,766	1.91	New
Majority			34,901	24.07	16.07
Turnout			144,979	74.18	5.61
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2008

2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shivnarayan Meena	34,063	33.96	15.83
	BJP	Mamta Meena	26,041	25.96	20.58
	BJSH	Ramnarayan Lodha	12,653	12.62	New
	BSP	Harisingh Gurjar	9,534	9.51	New
	Independent	Mansingh Bhil	8,970	8.94	New
Majority			8,022	8.00	4.75
Turnout			100,297	68.57	8.47
	INC hold		Swing

1994 By-election ^[8]

• Digvijaya Singh (INC)  : 53,621
• Ram Vallabh Kasat (BJP)  : 14,727

See also

• Chachaura
• Chachaura tehsil
• Chachaura Fort, 16th-17th century fort & state protected monument.
• Chachaura district, proposed district of Madhya Pradesh.
• Guna district
• Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha

References

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. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
4. "Chachoda Constituency Election Results 2023". The Times of India. 3 December 2023. Archived from the original on 6 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
5. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 September 2021.
6. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 17 August 2018.
7. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 17 August 2018.
8. "Statistical Report on Details of Bye Elections from 1952 to 1995" . Retrieved 9 August 2018.

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