Bijawar Assembly constituency

Bijawar Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.^[2]

Bijawar
Constituency No. 52 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Chhatarpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Tikamgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rajesh Shukla
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Pushpendra Nath Pathak

Overview

Bijawar (constituency number 52) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the Satai and Bijawar nagar panchayats and parts of Chhatarpur, Bijawar and Rajnagar tehsils of the district.^[3]

Bijawar is part of Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Maharajpur and Chhatarpur in this district and Jatara, Prithvipur, Niwari, Tikamgarh and Khargapur in Tikamgarh district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1951[2]	Diwan Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress
	Pyare Lal

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1957[4]	Gayatri Devi		Indian National Congress
	Hansraj
1962	Govind Singh Judev		Independent politician
1967	K. Nath		Indian National Congress
1972	Yadvendra Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Mukund Sakharam		Janata Party
1980	Yadvendra Singh		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985	Jujhar Singh Bundela		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1993	Manvendra Singh		Indian National Congress
1998
2003	Jitendra Singh Bundela		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008[5]	Asharani
2013	Pushpendra Nath Pathak
2018[6]	Rajesh Shukla		Samajwadi Party
2023			Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bijawar^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajesh Shukla	88,223	52.59	31.21
	INC	Charan Singh Yadav	55,761	33.24	16.83
	BSP	Mahendra Kumar Gupta	10,443	6.23	0.22
	AAP	Amit Bhatnagar	4,185	2.49	1.15
	ASP(KR)	Chetram Ahirwar	1,885	1.12
	NOTA	None of the above	1,433	0.85	0.39
Majority			32,462	19.35	6.05
Turnout			167,743	72.67	2.47
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bijawar^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rajesh Shukla	67,623	46.78
	BJP	Pushpendra Nath Pathak	30,909	21.38
	INC	Shankar Pratap Singh	23,726	16.41
	BSP	Anupama Yadav	9,318	6.45
	AAP	Amit Bhatnagar	1,943	1.34
	Independent	Deepak Bhaiya	1,902	1.32
	NOTA	None of the above	663	0.46
Majority			36,714	25.4
Turnout			144,543	70.2
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Bijawar
• Satai