Bhatapara Assembly constituency

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

Bhatapara
Constituency No. 46 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Baloda Bazar
Lok Sabha constituency	Raipur
Established	2003
Total electors	252,829[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Inder Kumar Sao
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

It comprises Bhatapara tehsil and parts of Simga tehsil, in Baloda Bazar district.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1952 (Bhatapara-Sitapur constituency)	Chakrapani Shukla		Indian National Congress
	Bajirao Bihari
1957	Chakrapani Shukla		Indian National Congress
1962	Shivlal Mehta
1967
1972
1977	Jagdish Prasad Aggarwal
1980			Indian National Congress
1985	Kalawati Shivlal Mehta		Indian National Congress
1990	Shyamachanran Shukla
1993	Radheshyam Sharma
1998	Shivratan Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003	Chaitram Sahu		Indian National Congress
2008[4]
2013[5]	Shiv Ratan Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018[6]
2023	Inder Kumar Sao		Indian National Congress

Election results

2023

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2023: Bhatapara^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Inder Kumar Sao	94,066	49.01	+19.93
	BJP	Shivratan Sharma	82,750	43.11	+7.30
	BSP	Khemdas Tandan	2,411	1.26
	JCC	Jitendra Banjare	2,280	1.19	−24.74
	Independent	Rakesh Kumar	2,239	1.17
	NOTA	None of the Above	657	0.34	−0.18
Majority			11,316	5.90	−0.83
Turnout			191,936	75.92	−0.74
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2018

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivratan Sharma	63,399	35.81
	INC	Sunil Maheshwari	51,490	29.08
	JCC	Chaitram Sahu	45,907	25.93
	NCP	Murari Mishra	2,269	1.28
	Independent	Mohan Gaikwad	1,963	1.11
	Independent	Narayan Sahu	1,701	0.96
	NOTA	None of the Above	915	0.52
Majority			11,909	6.73
Turnout			177,051	76.66
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Baloda Bazar district