Pohari Assembly constituency

Pohari
Constituency No. 24 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Shivpuri
Lok Sabha constituency	Gwalior
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kailash Kushwah
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Suresh Dhakad

Pohari Assembly constituency (formerly, Pohri) is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. ^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as Sheopur Pohri, one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state. ^[2]

Overview

Pohari (constituency number 24) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Shivpuri district. This constituency covers the entire Pohari tehsil and parts of Shivpuri and Narwar tehsils of the district. ^[3]

Pohari is part of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Karera in this district and Gwalior Rural, Gwalior, Gwalior East, Gwalior South, Bhitarwar and Dabra in Gwalior district. ^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madhya Bharat

Election	Name	Party
1952	Malkhan Singh Rawat		Indian National Congress

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1962	Tularam		Indian National Congress
1967	B. Arjun		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Babu Lal
1977	Damodar Prasad		Janata Party
1980	Hari Vallabh Shukla		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985	Himanshu Sharma		Indian National Congress
1990	Jadish Prasad Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Baijanti Verma		Independent politician
1998	Narendra Birthare		Bharatiya Janata Party
2003	Hari Vallabh Shukla		Rashtriya Samanta Dal
2008 [4]	Prahlad Bharti		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013 [5]
2018	Suresh Dhakad		Indian National Congress
2020^			Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Kailash Kushwah		Indian National Congress

^ byelection

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pohari ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kailash Kushwah	99,739	51.57	+26.36
	BJP	Suresh Dhakad	50,258	25.99	−13.23
	BSP	Pradhumna Verma (Bachaura)	37,261	19.27	−6.65
	NOTA	None of the above	1,556	0.8	−0.25
Majority			49,481	25.58	+12.28
Turnout			193,408	79.37	+3.02
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2020 bypolls

2020 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections: Pohari ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Dhakad	66,344	39.22	+16.45
	BSP	Kailash Kushwah	43,848	25.92	−6.30
	INC	Hari Vallabh Shukla	42,638	25.21	−11.85
	Independent	Param Singh Rawat	8,079	4.78
	API	Ummed Singh Adiwashi	1,543	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	1,783	1.05	+0.79
Majority			22,496	13.30	+8.46
Turnout			169,147	76.35	+0.47
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pohari ^{[8] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Suresh Dhakad	60,654	37.06
	BSP	Kailash Kushwah	52,736	32.22
	BJP	Prahlad Bharti	37,268	22.77
	Independent	Rakesh Rajak	2,271	1.39
	NOTA	None of the above	428	0.26
Majority			7,918	4.84
Turnout			163,666	75.88
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Shivpuri district
• Pohari

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 228, 250.
4. "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
5. "Assembly Election Result 2013-Form 21-E (Shivpuri)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
6. "Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2023 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India .
7. "Bye Elections 2020 (Parliamentary and Assemblies)" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 25 January 2022.
8. "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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