Chachoura Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Chachoura
Constituency No. 30 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Guna
LS constituency	Rajgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Priyanka Penchi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Chachoura 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 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.^[2]

Incumbent MLA from Chachoura is Priyanka Penchi from Bharatiya Janata Party.

Overview

Chachoura (constituency number 30) is one of the 4 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Guna district. This constituency covers the entire Chachaura and kumbhraj tehsil and part of maksudangarh tehsil.^[3]

Chachoura is part of Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Raghogarh in this district, Narsinghgarh, Biaora, Rajgarh, Khilchipur and Sarangpur in Rajgarh district and Susner in Shajapur district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:

Election	Name	Party
1952	Dwarkadas Ramnarayan		Hindu Mahasabha

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:

Election	Name
1957	Sagar Singh Sisodia	Indian National Congress
1962	Prabhu Lal Meena	Independent
1967	Sagar Singh Sisodia	Swatantra Party
1972	Krishna Vallabh Gupta	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Krishna Vallabh Gupta	Janata Party
1980	Devendra Singh	Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Devendra Singh	Indian National Congress
1990	Ram Bahadur Singh Parihar	Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Shivnarayan Meena	Indian National Congress
1994^	Digvijaya Singh
1998	Shivnarayan Meena
2003
2008
2013	Mamta Meena	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Lakshman Singh	Indian National Congress
2023	Priyanka Penchi	Bharatiya Janata Party

^By poll

Election results

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Priyanka Meena Penchi	110,254	56.47
	INC	Lakshman Singh	48,684	24.93
	AAP	Mamta Meena	27,405	14.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,249	1.15
Majority			61,570	31.54
Turnout				82.24
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chachoura^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	INC	Lakshman Singh
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 2015-12-01. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.