Chachoura (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Chachoura Vidhan Sabha constituency (formerly, Chachaura) 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 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.[2]
Incumbent MLA from Chachoura is Mamta Meena from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Overview
Chachoura (constituency number 30) is one of the 4 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Guna district. This constituency covers the entire Kumbhraj and Chachoura tehsils and part of Raghogarh tehsil.[3]
Chachoura is part of Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Raghogarh in this district, Narsinghgarh, Biaora, Rajgarh, Khilchipur and Sarangpur in Rajgarh district and Susner in Shajapur district.[3]
Members of Legislative Assembly
As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:
- 1951: Dwarkadas Ramnarayan, Hindu Mahasabha[2]
As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:
- 1957: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Indian National Congress
- 1962: Prabhu Lal, Independent
- 1967: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Swatantra Party
- 1972: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
- 1977: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Janata Party
- 1980: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress (I)
- 1985: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1990: Ram Bahadur Singh Parihar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1993: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
- 1994: Digvijay Singh, Indian National Congress in Bye-Election as CM
- 1998: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
- 2003: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
- 2008: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress[4]
- 2013: Mamta Meena, Bhartiya Janta Party defeated Shivnarayan Meena by 35,000 Votes.(Breaking Digvijay Singh record as CM)
See also
References
- ↑ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- 1 2 "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
- 1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
- ↑ "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 13 February 2011.