Katghora Assembly constituency

Katghora is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India.^[2][3] It is in Korba district and is a part of Korba (Lok Sabha constituency).^[4]

Katghora
Constituency No. 22 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Korba
Lok Sabha constituency	Korba
Established	1957
Total electors	214,882[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Premchand Patel
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Purushottam Kanwar

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1957	Banwari Lal		Indian National Congress
1957^	Rudrasharan Pratap Singh
1962
1967	B. Navbatram
1972	Bodhram Kanwar		Independent
1977			Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Krishnalal Jaiswal
1993	Banwari Lal Agrawal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003	Bodhram Kanwar		Indian National Congress
2008
2013	Lakhan Lal Dewangan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2018[5]	Purushottam Kanwar		Indian National Congress
2023[1]	Premchand Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

2023

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2023: Katghora^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Premchand Patel	73,680	45.19	+14.20
	INC	Purushottam Kanwar	56,780	34.83	−3.63
	GGP	Bhuneshwar Singh Shrotey	9,547	5.86	+2.92
	BSP	Engineer Satyajeet Kurrey	4900	3.01	New
	JCC	Surendra Rathore	4507	2.76	−17.05
	AAP	Chandrakant Dixena	3149	1.93	New
	CPI(M)	Jawhar Singh Kanwar	2535	1.55	−1.12
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,462	0.90	−0.96
Majority			16,900	10.36	+2.89
Turnout			163,032	75.87	−2.06
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Katghora^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Purushottam Kanwar	59,227	38.46
	BJP	Lakhan Lal Dewangan	47,716	30.99
	JCC	Govind Singh Rajput	30,509	19.81
	GGP	Lalit Manikpuri	4,520	2.94
	CPI(M)	Sapuran Kuldeep	4,113	2.67
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,867	1.86
Majority			11,511	7.47
Turnout			153,995	77.93
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

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