Mahasamund | |
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Constituency No. 42 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | Central India |
State | Chhattisgarh |
District | Mahasamund |
LS constituency | Mahasamund |
Total electors | 208,801 [1] |
Reservation | None |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2018 |
Mahasamund is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. [2] [3] It is in Mahasamund district and is a part of Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency. [4] [5]
Previously, Mahasamund was part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, until the state of Chhattisgarh was created in 2000.
Election | Name | Party | |
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1952 | Ajodhya Prasad | Indian National Congress | |
1957 | Miri Bajirao | ||
Nemichand Jain | |||
1962 | Paran | Praja Socialist Party | |
1967 | Nemichand Jain | Indian National Congress | |
1972 | Purushottamlal K. Dhaluram | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
1977 | Muhammad Yaqub | Janata Party | |
1980 | Maksudan Lal Chandrakar | Indian National Congress | |
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1990 | Santosh Kumar | Janata Dal | |
1993 | Agni Chandrakar | Indian National Congress | |
1998 [6] |
Year | Member | Party | |
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2003 | Poonam Chandrakar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2008 | Agni Chandrakar | Indian National Congress | |
2013 | Vimal Chopra | Independent politician | |
2018 [7] | Vinod Sevan Lal Chandrakar | Indian National Congress | |
2023 | Yogeshwar Raju Sinha | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Yogeshwar Raju Sinha | 84,594 | 51.41 | +34.41 | |
INC | Rashmi Chandrakar | 68,442 | 41.60 | +9.69 | |
JCC | Ashwant Tusshar Sahu | 1,735 | 1.05 | -15.01 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 391 | 0.24 | -1.11 | |
Majority | 36,793 | 19.53 | +4.62 | ||
Turnout | 164,542 | 78.80 | -2.17 | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Vinod Sevan Lal Chandrakar | 49,356 | 31.91 | ||
BJP | Poonam Chandrakar | 26,290 | 17.00 | ||
JCC | Tribhuvan Mahilang | 24,839 | 16.06 | ||
Independent | Manoj Kant Sahu | 21,911 | 14.17 | ||
Independent | Vimal Chopra | 21,160 | 13.68 | ||
Independent | T. K. Dadsena | 1,552 | 1.00 | ||
Independent | Pankaj Sahu | 1,445 | 0.93 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 2,085 | 1.35 | ||
Majority | 23,066 | 14.91 | |||
Turnout | 154,679 | 80.97 | |||
INC gain from Independent | Swing |