Dewas | |
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Constituency No. 171 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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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 | |
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).
Year | Member | Party | |
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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 (I) | |
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1990 | Tukoji Rao Pawar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1993 | |||
1998 | |||
2003 | |||
2008 | |||
2013 | |||
2015^ | Gayatri Raje Pawar | ||
2018 | |||
2023 |
^ denotes bypoll
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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Gayatri Raje Pawar | 103,456 | |||
INC | Thakur Jaysingh | 75,469 | |||
NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 1,88,201 | 75.95 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |