Pawai Assembly constituency

Pawai 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]

Pawai
Constituency No. 58 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Panna
Lok Sabha constituency	Khajuraho
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prahlad Lodhi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2018

Overview

Pawai (constituency number 58) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Panna district. This constituency covers the entire Pawai and Shahnagar tehsils of the district.^[3]

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

Electors	No.
Male	1,35,041
Female	1,21,886
Total	2,56,929

Members of Legislative Assembly

As a constituency of Madhya Bharat

• 1951: Bhura, Indian National Congress / Narendra Singh, Indian National Congress^[2]

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh

Election	Name	Party
1957	Narendra Singh		Indian National Congress
1962	Jagsuriya
1967	Ram Sewak Patel (Daddua Ji Sundra)		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Jagdish Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Uma Shankar		Janata Party
1980	Jaipal Singh		Indian National Congress
1985	Jaipal Singh		Indian National Congress
1990	Ashok Veer Vikram Singh		Independent
1993	Mukesh Nayak		Indian National Congress
1998	Ashok Veer Vikram Singh		Samajwadi Party
2003	Brijendra Pratap Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	Brijendra Pratap Singh		Bharatiya Janshakti Party
2013	Mukesh Nayak		Indian National Congress
2018	Prahlad Lodhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023

Election results

2013

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pawai^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mukesh Nayak	78,949	45.15
	BJP	Brijendra Pratap Singh	67254	38.46
	BSP	Feran Singh	11691	6.69
	GGP	Ghasoti Adiwasi	3977	2.27
	Independent	Chhatrapal Singh	2172	1.24
	Independent	Narendra Kumar Sharma	1648	0.94
	Independent	Jeevan Prasad	1413	0.81
	Independent	Mukesh	1357	0.78
	Independent	Kalpna Singh	1272	0.73
	Independent	Jawahar Lal	1200	0.69
	BSCP	Roshan Lal	805	0.46
	NOTA	None of the Above	3135	1.79
Majority
Turnout			174873	72.42
	Swing to INC from BJP		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pawai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prahlad Lodhi	79,642	39.83
	INC	Mukesh Nayak	55968	27.99
	SP	Bhuwan Vikram Singh (Keshu Bhaiya Raja)	22375	11.19
	BSP	Advocate Sita Ram Patel	14377	7.19
Majority
Turnout			199956	77.46	5.04
	Swing to BJP from INC		Swing

See also

• Pawai