Bhitarwar Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Bhitarwar
Constituency No. 18 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Gwalior
LS constituency	Gwalior
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Lakhan Singh Yadav
Party	Indian National Congress

Bhitarwar Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 2008, following the delimitation of the assembly constituencies. This constituency covers parts of the erstwhile Gird and Dabra constituencies.

Overview

Bhitarwar (constituency number 18) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Gwalior district. This constituency covers the entire Bhitarwar tehsil and part of Gwalior tehsil of the district.^[2]

Bhitarwar is part of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Gwalior, Gwalior East, Gwalior South, Gwalior Rural and Dabra in this district and Karera and Pohari in Shivpuri district.^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Year	Name^[3]
1993 (Gird)	Balendu Shukla	Indian National Congress
1998 (Gird)	Lakhan Singh Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party
2003 (Gird)	Brijendra Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	Lakhan Singh Yadav	Indian National Congress
2013	Lakhan Singh Yadav
2018	Lakhan Singh Yadav
2023	Mohan Singh Rathore	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bhitarwar^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	±%
	INC	lakhan singh yadav	74182	loss
	BJP	Mohan Singh Rathore	96626	won
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority			22444
Turnout
	[[MOHAN SINGH RATHORE[BJP]\|MOHAN SINGH RATHORE[BJP]]] hold		Swing

2013 results

M. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2013: Bhitarwar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakhan Singh Yadav	40,578	28.89
	BJP	Anoop Mishra	34030	24.23
	BSP	Ram Niwas Singh Gurjar	24556	17.48
	BA S D	Jawahar Singh Rawat	17000	12.10
	RSMD	Brijendra Tiwari	14578	10.38
	Independent	Sitav Kha	1272	0.91	N/A
	LSWP	Chandan Singh Jat	1101	0.78	N/A
	Independent	Pavan Kumar Sharma	930	0.66	N/A
	Independent	Hardeep Singh	783	0.56	N/A
	NCP	Nand Ram Kushwah	727	0.52	N/A
	Independent	Sanju Singh Parihar	697	0.50	N/A
	Independent	Jagdish Prajapati	687	0.49	N/A
	Independent	Dheer Singh Yadav	439	0.31	N/A
	Independent	Shakuntala Chaudhary	438	0.31	N/A
	Independent	Genda Lal Pal	429	0.31	N/A
	LJP	Hasan Singh Kushwah	401	0.29	N/A
	Independent	Hardeep Singh	783	0.56	N/A
	Independent	Raju	371	0.26	N/A
	Independent	Sandeep Pathak	248	0.18	N/A
	SP	Himanshu Rawat	222	0.16	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	983	0.70
Majority
Turnout			140470	70.02
	INC hold		Swing

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 227, 250.
^ "(Madhya Pradesh) Assembly Constituency Elections". elections.in. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
^ "3 Union ministers feature in BJP's second list for Madhya Pradesh polls". India Today. Retrieved 25 September 2023.