Dongargaon Assembly constituency

Dongargaon is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India.^[2][3] It is in Rajnandgaon district and is a segment of Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. The seat used to be part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly when Chhattisgarh was part of MP.

Dongargaon
Constituency No. 76 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Rajnandgaon
Lok Sabha constituency	Rajnandgaon
Established	1951
Total electors	203,009[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Daleshwar Sahu
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Kheduram Sahu

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1952	Dhannalal Jain		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Ganeshmal Bhandari
1967	Madan Tiwari		Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	S. Jairam Ayyar		Indian National Congress
1977	Vidya Bhushan Thakur		Janata Party
1980	Hiraram Verma		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Gita Devi Singh
1993
1998
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003	Pradeep Gandhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2004^	Raman Singh
2008	Kheduram Sahu
2013	Daleshwar Sahu[4]		Indian National Congress
2018
2023

^by-election

Election results

2023

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Dongargaon^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Daleshwar Sahu	81,479	47.49	−4.88
	BJP	Bharat Lal Varma	78,690	45.86	+5.31
	Hamar Raj Party	Chhattar Ram Chandrawanshi	5,178	3.02
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,258	1.32	−0.08
Majority			2,789	1.63	−10.19
Turnout			171,570	84.51	−0.92
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Dongargaon^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Daleshwar Sahu	84,581	52.37
	BJP	Madhusudan Yadav	65,498	40.55
	Independent	Vani Vilash Patel	1,863	1.15
	Independent	Rekchand Mandle	1,782	1.1
	BSP	Ashok Verma	1,482	0.92
	AAP	Chandramani Verma	1,474	0.91
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,257	1.4
Majority			19,083	11.82
Turnout			160,841	85.43
	INC hold		Swing

2004 Bypoll

• Dr. Raman Singh (BJP) : 42,115 votes^[6]
• Geeta Devi Singh (INC) : 32,004

2003

• Pradeep Gandhi (BJP) : 42,784 votes^[6]
• Geeta Devi Singh (INC) : 36,649

1998

• Smt. Gita Devi Singh (INC) : 25,125 votes^[7]
• Ashok Sharma (BJP) : 24,247

1980

• Hiraram Verma (INC-I) : 11,487 votes^[8]
• Vidyabhushan Thakur (JNP-SR) : 8,833

See also

• List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
• Rajnandgaon district