Sihawa Assembly constituency

Sihawa
Sihawa
Constituency No. 56 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Dhamtari
Lok Sabha constituency	Kanker
Established	2003
Total electors	193,736
Reservation	ST
Member of Legislative Assembly
	6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Ambika Markam
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

Sihawa is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India.^[2]

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It is part of Dhamtari district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes.

Year	Member
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Before 1961: Constituency did not exist
1962	Narayan Singh	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1967	Pusauram	Indian National Congress
1972	Pusauram	Indian National Congress
1977	Madhav Laxman	Janata Party
1980	Ram Nath	Indian National Congress
1985	Ashok Som	Indian National Congress
1990	Madhav Singh Dhruw
1993
1998
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
2003^[3]	Pinky Dhruw	Bharatiya Janata Party
2008^[4]	Ambika Markam	Indian National Congress
2013^[5]	Shravan Markam	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018^[6]	Dr. Lakshmi Dhruw	Indian National Congress
2023^[7]	Ambika Markam	Indian National Congress

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ambika Markam	84,891	49.81	−6.64
	BJP	Shrawan Markam	71,725	42.08	+14.63
	Hamar Raj Party	Jeewrakhan Marai	4,492	2.64	New
	Independent	Manmohan Singh Bisen	1,821	1.07
	Bharatiya Shakti Chetna Party	Domar Singh Netam	1,623	0.95	New
	GGP	Devchandra Uike	1,579	0.93	−4.26
	NOTA	None of the Above	3574	2.10	−0.65
Majority			13,166	7.73	−21.27
Turnout			170,445	87.98	+5.30
	INC hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Dr. Lakshmi Dhruw	88,451	56.45
	BJP	Pinky Shivaraj Shah	43,015	27.45
	GGP	Vinod Kumar Nagvanshi	8,126	5.19
	Independent	Makhan Lal Markam	4,729	3.02
	JCC	Shantanu Som	2,312	1.48
	AAP	Akbar Mandavi	1,544	0.99
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,306	2.75
Majority			45,436	29.00
Turnout			156,695	82.68
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

Members of the Legislative Assembly