Budhni Assembly constituency

For the town in Madhya Pradesh, see Budhni.

Budhni Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is a segment of Vidisha (Lok Sabha constituency). Budhni (constituency number 156) is one of the 4 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Sehore district.^[1][2][3]

Budhni
Constituency No. 156 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Sehore
Lok Sabha constituency	Vidisha
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramakant Bhargava
Party	Bhartiya janta party

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1957	Rajkumari Suraj Kala		Indian National Congress
1962	Bansi Dhar		Independent
1967	Mohan Lal Shishir		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Shaligram Vakil
1977
1980	K. N. Pradhan		Indian National Congress
1985	Chauhan Singh
1990	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		Bharatiya Janata Party
1992*	Mohan Lal Shishir
1993	Raj Kumar Patel		Indian National Congress
1998	Dev Kumar Patel
2003	Rajendra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2006*	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
2008
2013
2018[4]
2023[5]
2024*	Ramakant Bhargava

• *By Poll

Election results

2024 by-election

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election 2024: Budhni^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramakant Bhargava	107,478	50.32	20.38
	INC	Raj Kumar Patel	93,577	43.82	18.11
	NOTA	None of the Above	463	0.22	0.51
Majority			13,901	6.50	38.49
Turnout			2,13,568	77.07	7.79
	BJP hold		Swing	20.38

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhni^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	164,951	70.70	10.45
	INC	Vikram Mastal Sharma	59,977	25.71	5.76
	ASP(KR)	Dinesh Azad	2,363	1.01	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,700	0.73	0.13
Majority			1,04,974	44.99	16.21
Turnout			2,33,314	84.86	1.22
	BJP hold		Swing	10.45

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhni^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	123,492	60.25	9.74
	INC	Arun Subhashchandra Yadav	64,493	31.47	7.59
	GGP	Revaram Sallam	8,152	3.98	New
	BSP	Sanjeev Kumar	1,683	0.82	0.32
	IND.	Hemraj Pethari	1,386	0.68	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,764	0.86	0.36
Majority			58,999	28.78	17.33
Turnout			2,04,950	83.64	3.46
	BJP hold		Swing	9.74

2013

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhni

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	128,730	69.99
	INC	Dr. Mahendra Singh Chouhan	43,925	23.88
	PRSP	Brijesh Kumar	2,393	1.30
	BSP	Balram Yadav	2,096	1.14
	Independent	Sursari Prasad	1,707	0.93
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,247	1.22
Majority			84,805	46.11
Turnout			1,83,939	80.18
	BJP hold		Swing

2008

2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhni

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	75,828	62.15
	INC	Mahesh Singh Rajput	34,303	28.12
	Independent	Vijay Kumar	2,568	2.10
	LJP	Ram Singh Choudhary	1,729	1.42
	BSP	Manoj Kumar Rajak	1,416	1.16
Majority			41,525	34.03
Turnout			1,22,007	72.59
	BJP hold		Swing

2006 bypoll

2006 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election: Budhni

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	66,689	59.07
	INC	Raj Kumar Patel	30,164	26.72
	GGP	Gulzar Singh Markam	7,900	7.00
	Independent	Santosh Gaur	2,085	1.85
	Independent	Ram Neta	1,284	1.14
Majority			36,525	32.35
Turnout			1,12,889	64.57
	BJP hold		Swing

2003

• Rajendra Singh (BJP): 58,052 votes^[7]
• Rajkumar Patel (INC): 47,616

1957

• Rajkumari Surajkala (INC): 9,672 votes^[8]
• Mathura Prasad (IND): 8,967