Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh Assembly constituency

Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 61 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Satna
Lok Sabha constituency	Satna
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Surendra Singh Gaharwar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Nilanshu Chaturvedi

Chitrakoot Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Member [4]	Party
1957	Kaushalendra Pratap Bahadur Singh		Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
1967	Ramanand Singh		Praja Socialist Party
1972	Ram Chandra Bajpayee		Indian National Congress
1977	Ramanand Singh		Janata Party
1980	Ram Chandra Bajpayee		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Ramanand Singh		Janata Dal
1993	Ganesh		Bahujan Samaj Party
1998	Prem Singh		Indian National Congress
2003
2008	Surendra Singh Gaharwar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Prem Singh		Indian National Congress
2017^	Nilanshu Chaturvedi
2018
2023	Surendra Singh Gaharwar		Bharatiya Janata Party

^ bypolls

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Surendra Singh Gaharwar	58,009	37.27	+3.5
	INC	Nilanshu Chaturvedi	51,339	32.99	−7.91
	BSP	Subhash Sharma	31,797	20.43	+3.63
	SP	Sanjay Singh	6,347	4.08
	NOTA	None of the above	1,154	0.74	+0.43
Majority			6,670	4.28	−2.85
Turnout			155,631	71.09	−0.59
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot ^{[6] [2]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nilanshu Chaturvedi	58,465	40.9
	BJP	Surendra Singh Gaharwar	48,267	33.77
	BSP	Ravendra Singh Patwari	24,010	16.8
	Independent	Brijesh Pratap Singh	1,791	1.25
	Independent	Abhay Lal Yadav	1,339	0.94
	NOTA	None of the above	449	0.31
Majority			10,198	7.13
Turnout			142,947	71.68
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh

References

1. "Madhya Pradesh 2013". myneta.info. National Election Watch. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
2. "List of Assembly Constituencies". eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
3. "Vidhansabha Seats". electionsininda.com. Election in India. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
4. "(Madhya Pradesh) Assembly Constituency Elections". elections.in. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
5. "BJP releases first list of candidates for 39 seats in MP". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
6. "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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