Raigarh Assembly constituency

Raigarh
Constituency No. 16 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Raigarh
LS constituency	Raigarh
Established	1961
Total electors	257,432 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent O. P. Choudhary
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023

Raigarh is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. ^{[2] [3]} It is in Raigarh district. The seat used to be part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly when Chhattisgarh was part of MP.

Members of Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1962	Niranjan Lal		Indian National Congress
1967	R. K. L. Agarwal		Praja Socialist Party
1972	Ram Kumar Agrawal		Indian National Congress
1977
1980	Krishna Kumar
1985
1990
1993
1998
2003	Vijay Agrawal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	S. Nayak		Indian National Congress
2013	Roshan Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Prakash Naik [4]		Indian National Congress
2023 [5] [6]	O. P. Choudhary [4]		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023 Assembly Election

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	O. P. Choudhary	129,134	63.21	+34.76
	INC	Prakash Shakrajeet Naik	64,691	31.66	-4.40
	NOTA	None of the Above	758	0.37	-0.79
Majority			64,443	31.55	+23.94
Turnout			2,04,308
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018 Assembly Election

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Raigarh ^{[4] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Prakash Shakrajeet Naik	69,062	36.06
	BJP	Roshanlal Agarwal	54,482	28.45
	Independent	Vijay Agrawal	42,914	22.41
	Independent	Ravishankar Patel	7,823	4.08
	JCC	Vibhas Singh Thakur	5,823	3.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,215	1.16
Majority			14,580	7.61
Turnout			1,91,533	77.11
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Raigarh 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. "State Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
5. mint (3 December 2023). "Chhattisgarh Election Result 2023: Full list of winners from BJP and Congress". Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
6. India Today (3 December 2023). "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Result 2023: Full list of winners". Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
7. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/assembly-elections/chhattisgarh/constituency-show/raigarh
8. "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Results in 2018". elections.in. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

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