Dabra Assembly constituency

Dabra is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is a segment of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes.^[1]

Dabra
Constituency No. 19 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Gwalior
Lok Sabha constituency	Gwalior
Established	1962
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suresh Raje
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Imarti Devi

Overview

Dabra (constituency number 19) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Gwalior district. Presently, after the delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies in 2008, this constituency covers the entire Dabra tehsil of the district.^[2] Before the delimitation, it covered the erstwhile Bhitarwar and Dabra R.I. Circles of the erstwhile Dabra tehsil.

It is a segment of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member[3]	Party
1962	Brinda Sahai[4]		Indian National Congress
1967	Jaggannath Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Pahad Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Gopiram		Janata Party
1980	Jaggannath Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Narsinghrao Pawar		Indian National Congress
1990	Narottam Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Jawahar Singh Rawat		Bahujan Samaj Party
1998	Narottam Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
2003
2008[5]	Imarti Devi		Indian National Congress
2013
2018
2020^	Suresh Raje
2023

^ bypolls

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Dabra^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Suresh Raje	84,717	48.08	−1.40
	BJP	Imarti Devi	82,450	46.79	+2.30
	BSP	Satyaprakashi Parsediya	4,437	2.52	−0.67
	NOTA	None of the above	1,564	0.89	−0.21
Majority			2,267	1.29	−3.70
Turnout			176,200	72.7	+5.83
	INC hold		Swing

2020 bypolls

Main article: 2020 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections

2020 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections: Dabra^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Suresh Raje	75,689	49.48	−11.13
	BJP	Imarti Devi	68056	44.49	+22.31
	BSP	Santosh Gaur	4883	3.19	−5.61
	NOTA	None of the above	1690	1.1	−0.50
Majority			7633	4.99	−33.44
Turnout			152978	66.87	−1.66
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Dabra^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Imarti Devi	90,598	60.61
	BJP	Kaptan Singh Sehsari	33,152	22.18
	BSP	P.S. Mandeliya	13,155	8.8
	Independent	Smt. Satya Prakashi Parsediya	2,963	1.98
	SS	Dinesh Kumar	2,260	1.51
	CPI(M)	Jitendra Arya	1,559	1.04
	AAP	Ramvati Shakya	1,387	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	2,389	1.6
Majority			57,446	38.43
Turnout			149,489	68.53
	INC hold		Swing

2013

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bhitarwar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Imarti Devi	67,764	52.77
	BJP	Suresh Rajey	34486	26.86
	BSP	Satyaprakshi Parsediya	19068	14.85
	BA S D	Ajmer Singh Puri	1557	1.21
	Independent	Raguvir Singh Kori	1273	0.99
	NCP	Lakhan Singh Gautam	707	0.55	N/A
	Independent	Anil Parseriyat	439	0.34	N/A
	Independent	Ashok Kumar Paliya	423	0.33	N/A
	SP	Balveer Khatik	317	0.25	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	2373	1.85
Majority			33278
Turnout			128407	65.15
	INC hold		Swing

2008

• Smt. Imarti Devi (INC) : 29,134 votes
• Hargovind Jauhari (BSP) : 18,504

1962

• Brinda Sahai (INC) : 12,695 votes
• Jagannath Singh (IND) : 10,562

See also

• Dabra
• Gwalior district
• List of constituencies of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly