Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha constituency

Rajnandgaon
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionCentral India
StateChhattisgarh
Assembly constituenciesPandariya
Kawardha
Khairagarh
Dongargarh
Rajnandgaon
Dongargaon
Khujji
Mohla-Manpur
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2019

Rajnandgaon is a Lok Sabha constituency in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

Assembly segments[edit]

Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following eight assembly segments:[1][2]

# Name District Member Party
71 Pandariya Kabirdham Bhawna Bohra BJP
72 Kawardha Vijay Sharma BJP
73 Khairagarh Khairagarh Yashoda Verma INC
74 Dongargarh (SC) Rajnandgaon Harshita Swami Baghel INC
75 Rajnandgaon Raman Singh BJP
76 Dongargaon Daleshwar Sahu INC
77 Khujji Bholaram Sahu INC
78 Mohla-Manpur (ST) Mohla-Manpur Indrashah Mandavi INC

Members of Parliament[edit]

Year Member Party
1957 Raja Bahadur Singh Indian National Congress
1962
1967 Padmawati Devi
1971 Ramsahai Pandey
1977 Madan Tiwary Janata Party
1980 Shivendra Bahadur Singh Indian National Congress
1984 Indian National Congress
1989 Dharmpal Singh Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
1991 Shivendra Bahadur Singh Indian National Congress
1996 Ashok Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party
1998 Motilal Vora Indian National Congress
1999 Raman Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2004 Pradeep Gandhi
2007^ Devwrat Singh Indian National Congress
2009 Madhusudan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 Abhishek Singh
2019 Santosh Pandey
  • ^ denotes by-election

Election results[edit]

2024[edit]

2024 Indian general election: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Bhupesh Baghel
BJP Santosh Pandey
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Santosh Pandey 662,387 50.68 -3.93
INC Bhola Ram Sahu 5,50,421 42.11 +7.52
BSP Ravita Lakra (Dhruv) 17,145 1.31 -0.43
NOTA None of the above 19,436 1.49 -1.26
Margin of victory 1,11,966 8.57
Turnout 13,07,878 76.20
BJP hold Swing

2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Abhishek Singh 6,43,473 54.61
INC Kamleshwar Verma 4,07,562 34.59
NOTA None of the above 32,385 2.75
BSP Anand Sahu 20,458 1.74
API Narendra Bansod 11,704 0.99
Margin of victory 2,35,911 20.02
Turnout 11,78,305 74.04
BJP hold Swing

2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Madhusudan Yadav 4,37,721 52.70
INC Devwrat Singh 3,18,647 38.36
IND. D. R. Yadav Pracharya 19,984 2.41
BSP Pradhuman Netam 15,956 1.92
Margin of victory 1,19,074 14.34
Turnout 8.30,581 58.86
BJP gain from INC Swing

1999[edit]

1999 Indian general election: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Raman Singh 3,04,611 51.46
INC Motilal Vora 2,77,896 46.94
Independent Deosingh Nandeshwar 2,847 0.48
GGP Ramesh Kumar Gond 2,735 0.46
Majority 26,715 4.52
Turnout 5,91,992 59.37
BJP gain from INC Swing

1998[edit]

1998 Indian general election: Rajnandgaon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Motilal Vora 3,04,709
BJP Ashok Sharma 2,52,468
Majority 52,241
Turnout 6,19,439
INC gain from BJP Swing

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Final notification on delimitation of Chhattisgarh constituencies" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. 2 June 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
  2. ^ "CandidateAC.xls file on assembly constituencies with information on district and parliamentary constituencies". Chhattisgarh. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2008.

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