Mahasamund Assembly constituency

Mahasamund
Constituency No. 42 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Mahasamund
LS constituency	Mahasamund
Total electors	208,801 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Yogeshwar Raju Sinha
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023

Mahasamund is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. ^{[2] [3]} It is in Mahasamund district and is a part of Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency. ^{[4] [5]}

Previously, Mahasamund was part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, until the state of Chhattisgarh was created in 2000.

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Madhya Pradesh assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952	Ajodhya Prasad		Indian National Congress
1957	Miri Bajirao
	Nemichand Jain
1962	Paran		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Nemichand Jain		Indian National Congress
1972	Purushottamlal K. Dhaluram		Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Muhammad Yaqub		Janata Party
1980	Maksudan Lal Chandrakar		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Santosh Kumar		Janata Dal
1993	Agni Chandrakar		Indian National Congress
1998 [6]

Chhattisgarh assembly

Year	Member	Party
2003	Poonam Chandrakar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	Agni Chandrakar		Indian National Congress
2013	Vimal Chopra		Independent politician
2018 [7]	Vinod Sevan Lal Chandrakar		Indian National Congress
2023	Yogeshwar Raju Sinha		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2023: Mahasamund ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogeshwar Raju Sinha	84,594	51.41	+34.41
	INC	Rashmi Chandrakar	68,442	41.60	+9.69
	JCC	Ashwant Tusshar Sahu	1,735	1.05	−15.01
	NOTA	None of the Above	391	0.24	−1.11
Majority			36,793	19.53	+4.62
Turnout			164,542	78.80	−2.17
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Mahasamund ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vinod Sevan Lal Chandrakar	49,356	31.91
	BJP	Poonam Chandrakar	26,290	17.00
	JCC	Tribhuvan Mahilang	24,839	16.06
	Independent	Manoj Kant Sahu	21,911	14.17
	Independent	Vimal Chopra	21,160	13.68
	Independent	T. K. Dadsena	1,552	1.00
	Independent	Pankaj Sahu	1,445	0.93
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,085	1.35
Majority			23,066	14.91
Turnout			154,679	80.97
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

See also

• Mahasamund district
• List of constituencies of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "State Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh" . Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
3. "New Maps of Assembly Constituency". ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
4. Elections In
5. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 227, 250.
6. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1998 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 22 December 2021.
7. "State Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 September 2021.

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