Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency

Bhopal is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency presently covers the entire Bhopal district and part of Sehore district.

Bhopal
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Berasia Bhopal Uttar Narela Bhopal Dakshin-Paschim Bhopal Madhya Govindpura Huzur Sehore
Established	1952
Total electors	23,39,411[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Alok Sharma
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, Bhopal Lok Sabha seat has 8 assembly seats as its segments.

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
149	Berasia (SC)	Bhopal	Vishnu Khatri		BJP		BJP
150	Bhopal Uttar		Atif Arif Aqueel		INC		INC
151	Narela		Vishvas Sarang		BJP		BJP
152	Bhopal Dakshin-Paschim		Bhagwandas Sabnani		BJP		BJP
153	Bhopal Madhya		Arif Masood		INC		INC
154	Govindpura		Krishna Gaur		BJP		BJP
155	Huzur		Rameshwar Sharma		BJP		BJP
159	Sehore	Sehore	Sudesh Rai		BJP		BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Saidullah Razmi		Indian National Congress
	Chatur Narain Malviya
1957	Maimoona Sultan
1962
1967	Jagannathrao Joshi		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1971	Shankar Dayal Sharma		Indian National Congress
1977	Arif Baig		Janata Party
1980	Shankar Dayal Sharma		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	K. N. Pradhan		Indian National Congress
1989	Sushil Chandra Varma		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1996
1998
1999	Uma Bharti
2004	Kailash Joshi
2009
2014	Alok Sanjar
2019	Pragya Thakur
2024	Alok Sharma

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Bhopal^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Alok Sharma	981,109	65.48	3.94
	INC	Arun Shrivastava	4,79,610	32.01	3.62
	BSP	Bhanu Pratap Singh	13,305	0.89	0.09
	NOTA	None of the above	6,621	0.44	0.05
Majority			5,01,499	33.47	7.56
Turnout			14,98,285	64.06	1.68
	BJP hold		Swing	3.94

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bhopal^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur	866,482	61.54	−1.65
	INC	Digvijaya Singh	5,01,660	35.63	+5.24
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,430	0.39	−0.06
Majority			3,64,822	25.91	−6.89
Turnout			14,08,669	65.74	+7.99
	BJP hold		Swing	-1.65

2014 results

2014 Indian general elections: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Alok Sanjar	714,178	63.19	+12.24
	INC	P. C. Sharma	3,43,482	30.39	−10.67
	AAP	Rachna Dhingra	21,298	1.88	N/A
	BSP	Sunil Borse	10,152	0.90	−1.93
	CPI	Shailendra Kumar Shaili	7,643	0.68	"N/A"
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,181	0.46	"N/A"
Majority			3,70,696	32.80	+22.91
Turnout			11,30,182	57.75	+12.68
	BJP hold		Swing	+12.24

2009 results

2009 Indian general elections: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kailash Chandra Joshi	335,678	50.95	−14.46
	INC	Surendra Singh Thakur	2,70,521	41.06	+11.29
	BSP	Ashok Narayan Singh	18,649	2.83	+0.88
	SP	Munawar Khan Kausar	8,615	1.31	+0.85
	Independent	Brajendra Chaturvedi	3,570	0.54	N/A
Majority			65,157	9.89	−25.75
Turnout			6,58,840	45.07	−1.39
	BJP hold		Swing	-14.46

2004 results

General Election, 2004: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kailash Joshi	561,563	65.41
	INC	Sajith Ali Banbhan	2,55,558	29.77
	BSP	G. S. Chawala	16,712	1.95
	Independent	Brij Basi Lal Sharma	7,965	0.92
Majority			3,06,005	35.64
Turnout			8,58,463	46.47
	BJP hold		Swing

1999 results

General Election, 1999: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sadhvi Uma Sri Bharti	5,37,905	55.09
	INC	Suresh Pachouri	3,69,041	37.79
	Independent	Shrawan Gourav	19,710	2.02
	BSP	Phool Singh	18,617	1.91
	NCP	Aslam Sher Khan	6,044	0.62
Majority			1,68,864	17.30
Turnout			9,76,493	61.87
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 results

General Election, 1998: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	4,94,481	57.44
	INC	Arif Baig	3,00,549	34.91
	BSP	Manoj Shrivastava	54,526	4.01
	CPI	Shailendra Kumar	15,423	1.79
Majority			1,93,932	22.53
Turnout			8,60,917	58.03
	BJP hold		Swing

1996 results

General Election, 1996: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	3,53,427	49.27
	INC	Kailash Agnihotri	2,02,533	28.24
	Independent	Ramesh Saxena	52,865	7.37
	AIIC(T)	Lalit Srivastava	46,146	6.43
	Independent	Rafiq Aslam Qureshi	8,605	1.20
Majority			1,50,894	21.03
Turnout			7,17,295	49.26
	BJP hold		Swing

1991 results

General Election, 1991: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	3,08,946	53.61
	INC	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi	2,06,738	35.88
	JD	Swami Agniwesh	26,716	4.64
Majority			1,02,208	17.73
Turnout			5,76,232	49.67
	BJP hold		Swing

1989 results

General Election, 1989: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	2,81,169	46.48
	INC	K. N. Pradhan	1,77,515	29.35
	BSP	A. Rauf Khan	97,886	16.18
Majority			1,03,654	17.13
Turnout			6,04,911	53.97
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

1984 results

General Election, 1984: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. N. Pradhan	2,40,717	61.73
	BJP	Laxminarayan Sharma	1,12,053	28.74
	JP	Goswami Gajanan Puri	5,705	1.46
	Independent	Gulkhan Alam	4,710	1.21
	Independent	Shiv Kumar Sahni	4,386	1.12
Majority			1,28,664	32.99
Turnout			3,89,943	48.89
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Bhopal district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha