Raipur Lok Sabha constituency

Raipur CG-8
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Raipur Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
Assembly constituencies	Baloda Bazar Bhatapara Dharsiwa Raipur Rural Raipur City West Raipur City North Raipur City South Arang Abhanpur
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Brijmohan Agrawal
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Raipur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Chhattisgarh. The constituency consist of Raipur District and Baloda Bazar district. This Constituency is one of the important constituency in India.

Bilaspur-Durg-Raipur Lok Sabha constituency

During the 1951-52 Lok Sabha elections, Bilaspur, Durg and Raipur formed a joint parliamentary constituency. This arrangement continued until the 1956 delimitation, when the areas were separated into present three distinct constituencies.

The joint constituency elected two Members of Parliament, Bhupendra Nath Mishra & Agam Dass Guru. After Guru Agam Das Guru's death in 1955, his wife Minimata won the subsequent by-election, becoming the third representative from this region.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Raipur Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments: ^{[1] [2]}

Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
Baloda Bazar	Baloda Bazar	Tank Ram Verma		BJP		BJP
Bhatapara		Inder Kumar Sao		INC
Dharsiwa	Raipur	Anuj Sharma		BJP
Raipur Rural		Motilal Sahu
Raipur City West		Rajesh Munat
Raipur City North		Purandar Mishra
Raipur City South		Sunil Kumar Soni
Arang (SC)		Guru Khushwant Saheb
Abhanpur		Indra Kumar Sahu

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Bhupendra Nath Misra [a]		Indian National Congress
	Agam Dass Guru [3] [a]
1955^	Minimata Agam Dass Guru [b]
1957	Birendra Bahadur Singh [c]
	Keshar Kumari Devi [c]
1962	Keshar Kumari Devi [4]
1967	Lakhan Lal Gupta
1971	Vidya Charan Shukla
1977	Purushottam Kaushik		Janata Party
1980	Keyur Bhushan		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Ramesh Bais		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	Vidya Charan Shukla		Indian National Congress
1996	Ramesh Bais		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999
2004
2009
2014
2019	Sunil Kumar Soni
2024	Brijmohan Agrawal

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Raipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Brijmohan Agrawal	10,50,351	66.19	+6.18
	INC	Vikas Upadhyay	4,75,066	29.94	−5.13
	NOTA	None of the above	4,448	0.28	−0.03
Majority			5,75,285	36.25	+11.31
Turnout			15,92,011	67.00	+0.84
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Raipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Soni	837,902	60.01	+7.65
	INC	Pramod Dubey	4,89,664	35.07	−3.57
	BSP	Khilesh Kumar Sahu	10,597	0.76	−0.29
	SS	Santosh Yadav	9,690	0.69	New
	IND.	Tarzan Jangde	6,301	0.45	+0.37
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,292	0.31	−0.15
Majority			3,51,238	24.94	+11.22
Turnout			13,97,142	66.16	+0.47
	BJP hold		Swing	+7.65

2014 results

2014 Indian general elections: Raipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Bais	654,922	52.36	+3.17
	INC	Satya Narayan Sharma	4,83,276	38.64	−2.75
	AAP	Sandeep Tiwari	15,139	1.21	N/A
	BSP	Guruji Virendra Kumar Dahariya	13,147	1.05	−1.22
	IND.	Om Prakash Dande	12,699	1.02	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,796	0.46	N/A
Majority			1,71,646	13.72	+5.92
Turnout			12,50,845	65.69	+18.69
	BJP hold		Swing	+3.17

2009 results

2009 Indian general elections: Raipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Bais	3,64,943	49.19
	INC	Bhupesh Baghel	3,07,042	41.39
	BSP	Vidhya Devi Sahu	16,853	2.27
	Independent	Navin Gupta	8,123	1.09
	Independent	Shrikant Kaser	6,208	0.84
Majority			57,901	7.80
Turnout			7,41,861	47.00
	BJP hold		Swing

2004 results

2004 Indian general elections: Raipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramesh Bais	3,76,029	54.54
	INC	Shyama Charan Shukla	2,46,510	35.75
	BSP	Dr. Heeraman Banjare	32,252	4.68
Majority			1,29,519	18.79
Turnout			6,89,517	50.32
	BJP hold		Swing

1977 Election

• Purushottam Lal Kaushik (BLD) : 186,296 votes ^[5]
• Vidyacharan Shukla (INC) : 102,684

See also

• Raipur
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

Notes

1. for the joint Lok Sabha constituency of Bilaspur-Durg-Raipur
2. Minimata was elected in by-elections in 1955 after the sudden demise of the sitting MP, her husband Guru Agam Dass.
3. for the now separate Lok Sabha constituency of Raipur

References

1. "CandidateAC.xls file on assembly constituencies with information on district and parliamentary constituencies". Chhattisgarh. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2008.
2. "Final notification on delimitation of Chhattisgarh constituencies" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. 2 June 2008. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
3. "IndiaVotes PC: Bilaspur Durg Raipur 1952". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
4. "1962 India General (3rd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".
5. "1977 India General (6th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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