Betul Lok Sabha constituency

Betul is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. It covers the entire Betul and Harda districts and part of Khandwa district.

Betul
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Betul Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Multai Amla Betul Ghoradongri Bhainsdehi Timarni Harda Harsud
Established	1952
Total electors	18,95,331
Reservation	ST
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Durga Das Uikey
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Like most other Lok Sabha seats in MP and Chhattisgarh, with few seats like Durg (which has nine assembly segments under it) being exceptions, Betul Lok Sabha seat has 8 assembly seats as its segments. Presently, since the delimitation of the parliamentary and legislative assembly constituencies in 2008, Betul Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following eight Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead[citation needed]
129	Multai	Betul	Chandrashekhar Deshmukh		BJP		BJP
130	Amla (SC)		Dr.Yogesh Pandagre		BJP		BJP
131	Betul		Hemant Khandelwal		BJP		BJP
132	Ghoradongri (ST)		Ganga Sanjay Uikey		BJP		BJP
133	Bhainsdehi (ST)		Mahendrasingh Chauhan		BJP		BJP
134	Timarni (ST)	Harda	Abhijeet Shah		INC		BJP
135	Harda		Dr.Ram Kishore Dogne		INC		BJP
176	Harsud (ST)	Khandwa	Kunwar Vijay Shah		BJP		BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Bhikulal Chandak		Indian National Congress
1967	Narendra Kumar Salve
1971
1977	Subhash Chandra Ahuja[2]		Janata Party
1980	Gufran Azam		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Aslam Sher Khan		Indian National Congress
1989	Arif Beg		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	Aslam Sher Khan		Indian National Congress
1996	Vijay Khandelwal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999[3]
2004[4]
2008^	Hemant Khandelwal
2009[5]	Jyoti Dhurve
2014[6]
2019	Durga Das Uikey
2024

^ by poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Betul^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Durga Das Uikey	848,236	60.76	1.02
	INC	Ramu Tekam	468,475	33.56	0.35
	BSP	Arjun Ashok Bhalavi	26,597	1.91	0.17
	NOTA	None of the above	20,322	1.46	0.25
	BAP	Anil Uikey	10,576	0.76	New
	Independent	Bhurelal Chotelal Bethekar	7,811	0.56	N/A
	Independent	Bhagcharan Warkade	5,968	0.43	0.28
	GGP	Suner Uikey	4,186	0.30	0.07
Majority			3,79,761	27.20	0.67
Turnout			13,96,020	73.66	4.52
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Betul^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Durga Das Uikey	811,248	59.74	−1.69
	INC	Ramu Tekam	4,51,007	33.21	+3.14
	BSP	Ashok Bhalavi	23,573	1.74	+0.17
Majority			3,60,241	26.53
Turnout			13,58,336	78.18	+13.02
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Betul^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jyoti Dhurve	643,651	61.43
	INC	Ajay Shah "Makrai"	3,15,037	30.07
	AAP	Rajesh Sariyam	20,627	1.97
	BSP	Sohan Lal Uikey	16,461	1.57
Majority			3,28,614	31.36
Turnout			10,47,719	65.16
	BJP hold		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Betul^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jyoti Dhurve	334,939	52.62
	INC	Ojharam Evane	2,37,622	37.33
	BSP	Rama Kakodia	13,586	2.13
Majority			97,317	15.29
Turnout			6,36,555	49.47
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Betul district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha