Sewda Assembly constituency

Sewda
Constituency No. 20 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Datia
Lok Sabha constituency	Bhind
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pradeep Agrawal
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Kunwar Ghansyam Singh

Sewda Assembly constituency (formerly, Seondha) 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 one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state. ^[2] It was reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes till 2008.

Overview

Sewda (constituency number 20) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Datia district. This constituency covers the entire Sewda tehsil of the district. ^[3]

Sewda is part of Bhind Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bhander and Datia in this district and Bhind, Ater, Lahar, Mehgaon and Gohad in Bhind district. ^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vindhya Pradesh

Year	Member	Party
1951 [2]	Ram Das		Indian National Congress
	Laxmi Narayan Mahate

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1972	Shiv Charan		Indian National Congress
1977	Tulsi Ram Dangi		Janata Party
1980	Mangal Singh		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985	Mahendra Boudh		Indian National Congress
1990
1993	Ram Dayal Prabhakar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Mahendra Boudh		Indian National Congress
2003	Ram Dayal Prabhakar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008 [4]	Radhelal Baghel		Bahujan Samaj Party
2013	Pradeep Agrawal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Kunwar Ghansyam Singh		Indian National Congress
2023	Pradeep Agrawal		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sewda ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pradeep Agrawal	43,834	31.14	+5.49
	INC	Kuwar Ghanshyam Singh	41,276	29.32	−23.39
	ASP(KR)	Damodar Singh-Yadav	29,042	20.63
	BSP	Lakhan Singh Yadav	12,787	9.08	−5.56
	AAP	Dubey Sanjay	7,746	5.5	+3.49
	NOTA	None of the above	293	0.21	−1.22
Majority			2,558	1.82	−25.24
Turnout			140,768	73.33	+1.75
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sewda ^{[6] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kunwar Ghansyam Singh	64,810	52.71
	BJP	Radhelal Baghel	31,542	25.65
	BSP	Lakhan Singh Yadav	18,006	14.64
	AAP	Parineeta Raje (Beti Raja)	2,472	2.01
	NOTA	None of the above	1,753	1.43
Majority			33,268	27.06
Turnout			122,954	71.58
	INC gain from		Swing

See also

• Seondha
• Ratangarh, Datia
• Datia district

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 227, 250.
4. "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
5. "3 Union ministers feature in BJP's second list for Madhya Pradesh polls". India Today. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
6. "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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