Takhatpur Assembly constituency

Takhatpur
Constituency No. 28 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Bilaspur
LS constituency	Bilaspur
Established	2003
Total electors	243,812 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dharmjeet Singh Thakur
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Rashmi Ashish Singh

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

It comprises Takhatpur tehsil in Bilaspur district. ^[3] As of 2023, its representative is Dharmjeet Singh Thakur of the Bharatiya Janata Party. ^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assemby

Election	Name	Party
1962	Murlidhar Mishra		Indian National Congress
1967	M. Lal		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Rohani Kumar		Indian National Congress
1977	Manharan Lal Pandey		Janata Party
1980	Taherbhai		Indian National Congress
1985	Manharan Lal Pandey		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1993
1998	Jagjeet Singh Makkad

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2003	Balram Singh		Indian National Congress
2008 [5]	Raju Singh Kshatri		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013 [6]
2018 [7]	Rashmi Ashish Singh		Indian National Congress
2023 [4]	Dharmjeet Singh Thakur		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Takhatpur ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dharmjeet Singh Thakur	90,978	50.58	+22.53
	INC	Rashmi Ashish Singh	76,086	42.30	+9.95
	Independent	Sanjeev Khandey	3,502	1.95
	BSP	Mohan Mishra	1,938	1.08
	NOTA	None of the Above	1395	0.78	+0.22
Majority			14,892	8.28	+6.44
Turnout			179885	73.78	+0.58
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Takhatpur ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rashmi Ashish Singh	52,616	32.35
	JCC	Santosh Kaushik	49,625	30.51
	BJP	Harshita Pandey	45,622	28.05
	Independent	Balram Sahu	1861	1.14
	NOTA	None of the Above	916	0.56
Majority			2,991	1.84
Turnout			162,638	73.20
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh

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. "Takhatpur Assembly Election Results 2023 Highlights: BJP's Dharmjeet Singh with 90978 defeats INC's Rashmi Ashish Singh" . Retrieved 30 December 2023.
5. "State Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
6. "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
7. "Statistical data of General Election to Chhatisgarh Assembly - 2018". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

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