Sakti Assembly constituency

Sakti
Constituency No. 35 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Sakti
LS constituency	Janjgir-Champa
Established	2003
Total electors	214,392 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Charan Das Mahant
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

Sakti is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. ^[2]

It comprises Sakti tehsil and parts of Champa tehsil, in Sakti district. ^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madhya Pradesh assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952	Rajbahudur Leeladhar Singh		Independent politician
1957			Praja Socialist Party
1962	Tankrajeshwari		Indian National Congress
1967	I. Devi
1972	Pushpendranath Singh		Independent politician
1977	Raja Surendra Bahadur Singh		Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Pushpendra Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Raja Surendra Bahadur Singh		Indian National Congress
1998 [4]	Megharam Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Chhattisgarh assembly

Election	Name	Party
2003 [5]	Megharam Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008 [6]	Saroja Manharan Rathore		Indian National Congress
2013 [7]	Doctor Khilawan Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018 [8]	Charan Das Mahant		Indian National Congress
2023

Election results

2023

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2023: Sakti ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Charan Das Mahant	81,519	50.56	−2.01
	BJP	Khilawan Sahu	69,124	42.88	+10.55
	GGP	Bhaiya Jitendra Chauhan	3,464	2.15
	AAP	Anubhav Tiwari	2,752	1.71	+1.38
	NOTA	None of the Above	909	0.56	−0.15
Majority			12,395	7.68	−12.56
Turnout			161,218	75.20	−0.24
	INC hold		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Sakti ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Charan Das Mahant	78,058	52.57
	BJP	Medha Ram Sahu	48,012	32.33
	BSP	Gautam Rathore	13,907	9.37
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,057	0.71
Majority			30,046	20.24
Turnout			148,495	75.44
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Janjgir-Champa district

References

1. "State Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh" . Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
2. "New Maps of Assembly Constituency". ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
4. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1998 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 22 December 2021.
5. "State Election, 2003 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
6. "State Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
7. "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
8. "Statistical data of General Election to Chhatisgarh Assembly - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

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