Dewas Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Dewas (disambiguation).

Dewas Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] It is a segment of Dewas (Lok Sabha constituency).

Dewas
Constituency No. 171 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Dewas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dewas
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gayatri Raje Pawar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1957	Anant Sadashiv Patwardhan		Indian National Congress
1962	Bapulal Kishan
1967	Hate Singh
1972	Dhirajsingh Mohansingh
1977	Shankar Kanungo		Janata Party
1980	Chandra Prabash Shekhar		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Tukoji Rao Pawar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1998
2003
2008
2013
2015^	Gayatri Raje Pawar
2018
2023

^ denotes bypoll

Election Results

1962 Vidhan Sabha

• Bapulal (INC): 10,708 votes^[2]
• Nand Ram (Jana Sangh): 5,695

2018

In December 2018, one news outlet erroneously reported that sitting MLA Gayatri Devi had lost.^[3] She was trailing for a long time but managed to turn the tide.

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Dewas^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gayatri Raje Pawar	103,456
	INC	Thakur Jaysingh	75,469
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout			1,88,201	75.95
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Dewas
• Dewas (Lok Sabha constituency)