Kawardha | |
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Constituency No. 72 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | Central India |
State | Chhattisgarh |
District | Kabirdham |
LS constituency | Rajnandgaon |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 331,671 [1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected year | 2023 |
Preceded by | Mohammad Akbar |
Kawardha is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. [2] [3] It is in Kabirdham district and is a segment of Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. The seat used to be part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly when Chhattisgarh was part of MP.
Year | Member | Party | |
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1952 | Gangaprasad | Ram Rajya Parishad | |
1957 | Dharamraj Singh | ||
1962 | Vishwaraj Pratap Singh | ||
1967 | T. V. Singh | Independent | |
1972 | Kumar Yashwant Raj Singh | ||
1977 | Rani Shashi Prabha Devi | Ram Rajya Parishad | |
1980 | Hamidullah Khan | Independent | |
1985 | Rani Shashi Prabha Devi | Indian National Congress | |
1990 | Raman Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1993 | |||
1998 | Yogeshwar Raj Singh | Indian National Congress |
Year | Member | Party | |
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2003 [4] | Yogeshwar Raj Singh | Indian National Congress | |
2008 [5] | Siyaram Sahu | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2013 [6] | Ashok Sahu | ||
2018 [7] [8] | Mohammad Akbar | Indian National Congress | |
2023 [9] [10] | Vijay Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Vijay Sharma | 144,257 | 53.22 | +21.22 | |
INC | Mohammad Akbar | 104,665 | 38.62 | −18.01 | |
AAP | Khadgraj Singh | 6334 | 2.34 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 925 | 0.34 | −0.05 | |
Majority | 39,592 | 14.60 | −10.03 | ||
Turnout | 271,047 | 81.72 | −0.78 | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Mohammad Akbar | 136,320 | 56.63 | ||
BJP | Ashok Sahu | 77,036 | 32.00 | ||
Independent | Ramkhilawan Dahariya | 6,604 | 2.74 | ||
JCC | Agam Das Anant | 6,250 | 2.60 | New | |
Independent | Ram Kumar Sahu | 2,947 | 1.22 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 949 | 0.39 | ||
Majority | 59,284 | 24.63 | |||
Turnout | 240,739 | 82.50 | |||
INC gain from BJP | Swing |
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