Bemetara Assembly constituency

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

Bemetara
Constituency No. 69 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Bemetara
Lok Sabha constituency	Durg
Established	2003
Total electors	247,204[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dipesh Sahu
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Ashish Kumar Chhabra

It comprises Berla tehsil and parts of Bemetara tehsil and Dhamdha tehsil, all in Bemetara district.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1952	V. Y. Tamaskar		Independent politician
	Jagtarandas		Indian National Congress
1957	Sheolal
	Laxman Prasad
1962
1967	G. R. Tamaskar		Independent politician
1972	Laxman Prasad Vaidya		Indian National Congress
1977
1980	Ravendra Singh		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Mahesh Tiwari		Janata Dal
1993	Chetan Singh Verma		Indian National Congress
1998	Mahesh Tiwari		Bharatiya Janata Party
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003	Chetan Singh Verma		Indian National Congress
2008[4]	Tamradhwaj Sahu
2013[5]	Awadhesh Singh Chandel		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018[6]	Ashish Kumar Chhabra		Indian National Congress
2023	Dipesh Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Bemetara^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dipesh Sahu	97,731	49.60	+20.79
	INC	Ashish Kumar Chhabra	88,597	44.97	+1.62
	Independent	Rohit Sinha	2,880	1.46
	Independent	Jitendra Navrange	2,165	1.10
	NOTA	None of the Above	498	0.25	−1.94
Majority			9,134	4.63	−9.91
Turnout			197,031	79.70	+1.23
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Bemetara^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ashish Kumar Chhabra	74,914	43.35
	BJP	Awadhesh Singh Chandel	49,783	28.81
	JCC	Yogesh Tiwari	28,332	16.40	New
	Independent	Sanjeev Agrawal	4,374	2.53
	Independent	Sohan Lal Nishad	4,275	2.47
	NOTA	Churaman Singh Sahu	1,713	0.99
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,789	2.19
Majority			25,131	14.54
Turnout			172,807	78.47
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Bemetara district