Dewas Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Dewas (disambiguation).

Dewas
Constituency No. 171 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Dewas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dewas
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gayatri Raje Pawar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Dewas Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. ^[1] It is a segment of Dewas (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1957	Anant Sadashiv Patwardhan		Indian National Congress
1962	Bapulal Kishan
1967	Hate Singh
1972	Dhirajsingh Mohansingh
1977	Shankar Kanungo		Janata Party
1980	Chandra Prabash Shekhar		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Tukoji Rao Pawar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1998
2003
2008
2013
2015^	Gayatri Raje Pawar
2018
2023

^ denotes bypoll

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Dewas ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gayatri Raje Puar	117,422	55.33	+0.26
	INC	Pradeep Choudhary	90,466	42.63	+2.46
	NOTA	None of the above	1,422	0.67	−0.33
Majority			26,956	12.7	−2.2
Turnout			212,211	75.24	−0.57
	BJP hold		Swing

2018

In December 2018, one news outlet erroneously reported that sitting MLA Gayatri Devi had lost. ^[3] She was trailing for a long time but managed to turn the tide.

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Dewas ^{[4] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gayatri Raje Pawar	103,456	55.07
	INC	Thakur Jaysingh	75,469	40.17
	Independent	Dilip Bangar	2,362	1.26
	BSP	Shaikh Qutubuddin	1,827	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	1,871	1.0
Majority			27,987	14.9
Turnout			187,874	75.81
	BJP hold		Swing

1962

• Bapulal (INC): 10,708 votes ^[5]
• Nand Ram (Jana Sangh): 5,695

See also

• Dewas
• Dewas (Lok Sabha constituency)

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on December 1, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
2. "Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India .
3. Zeeshan Akthar (12 December 2018). "राजघराने की एक बहु जीती, दूसरी ने गंवाई सीट, निर्दलीय 'शेरा' से हार गईं बीजेपी सरकार की मंत्री - Assembly election results vidhan sabha chunav news updates madhya pradesh election bjp candidate gayatri raje loss her seat yashodhara raje scindia win" [One daughter-in-law of the royal family won, the other lost the seat, BJP government minister lost to independent 'Shera'] (in Hindi). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
4. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 September 2021.
5. "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1962". elections.in. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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