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Surkhi Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India
Surkhi 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 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state.[2]
| Surkhi | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 37 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | Central India |
| State | Madhya Pradesh |
| District | Sagar |
| LS constituency | Sagar |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2020 |
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Surkhi (constituency number 37) is one of the 8 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Sagar district. This constituency presently covers the entire Surkhi town Rahatgarh tehsil and part of Sagar tehsil of the district.[3]
Surkhi is part of Sagar Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bina, Khurai, Naryoli and Sagar in this district and Kurwai, Sironj and Shamshabad in Vidisha district.[3]
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Jyotishi Jwala Prasad | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Bani Bhushan Rai | ||
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | N. P. Rai | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1972 | Gaya Prasad Kabirpanthi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Laxminarayan Yadav | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Vitthalbhai Patel | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1990 | Laxminarayan Yadav | Janata Dal | |
| 1993 | Bhupendra Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1998 | |||
| 2003 | Govind Singh Rajput | Indian National Congress | |
| 2008 | |||
| 2013 | Parul Sahu | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2018 | Govind Singh Rajput | Indian National Congress | |
| 2020^ | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2023 | |||
- ^ denotes by-election
2023
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Govind Singh Rajput | ||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2020 by-election
In the 2020 by-election, Govind Singh Rajput of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Parul Sahu Keshri from the Indian National Congress with a margin of 40,991 votes.[4] Rajput secured 93,294 votes while runner-up Parul got only 52,303 votes.[5]
2018
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Govind Singh Rajput | 80,806 | 58.77 | ||
| BJP | Sudheer Yadav | 59,388 | 41.27 |  2.36 | |
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
- "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 6.
- "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.