Chandla Assembly constituency

Chandla 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] but it was abolished in 1956. It came into existence again in 1976. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies.

Chandla
Constituency No. 49 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Chhatarpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Khajuraho
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dileep Ahirwar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Overview

Chandla (constituency number 49) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the entire Gaurihar tehsil, Chandla nagar panchayat and part of Laundi tehsil of the district.^[3]

Chandla is part of Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Rajnagar in this district, Pawai, Gunnaor and Panna in Panna district and Vijayraghavgarh, Murwara and Bahoriband in Katni district.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

As from a constituency of Vindhya Pradesh:

• 1951: Kamta Prasad, Indian National Congress^[2]

As from a constituency of Madhya Pradesh:

• 1977: Raghunath Singh Kalyan Singh, Janata Party
• 1980: Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Indian National Congress (I)
• 1985: Shyam Behari Pathak, Indian National Congress
• 1990: Ansari Mohammed Gani, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 1993: Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Indian National Congress
• 1998: Vijay Bahadur Singh Bundela, Samajwadi Party^[4]
• 2003: Vijay Bahadur Singh Bundela, Samajwadi Party
• 2008: Ramdayal Ahirwar,^[5] Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2013 : R.D. Prajapati, BJP

Election	Name	Party
2018	Rajesh Kumar Prajapati[6]		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Dileep Ahirwar

Election results

2023

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ahirwar Dileep	69,668	43.14	+11.98
	INC	Anuragi Harprasad (Gopi Master)	54,177	33.55	+3.28
	SP	Ahirwar Pushpendra Kumar	24,977	15.47	+3.38
	BSP	D. D. Ahirwar (Deendayal)	7,124	4.41	−15.04
	NOTA	None of the above	2,135	1.32	−0.72
Majority			15,491	9.59	+8.7
Turnout			161,494	68.19	+5.81
	BJP hold		Swing

2018

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajesh Kumar Prajapati	41,227	31.16
	INC	Anuragi Harprasad (Gopi Master)	40,050	30.27
	BSP	Ahirwar- Pushpendra- Kumar	25,739	19.45
	SP	Anitya Singh	15,994	12.09
	Independent	Bhavaneedeen	1,447	1.09
	Independent	Ahirwar Rajkumar	1,293	0.98
	NOTA	None of the above	2,695	2.04
Majority			1,177	0.89
Turnout			132,307	62.38
	BJP gain from		Swing

See also

• Chandla