Pawai
Constituency for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionCentral India
StateMadhya Pradesh
DistrictPanna
LS constituencyKhajuraho
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Prahalad Lodhi
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2018

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]

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

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 Prahalad Lodhi Bharatiya Janata Party

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 Increase 5.04
Swing to BJP from INC Swing

See also

References

  1. ^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 231, 250.
  4. ^ "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh - Detailed Results" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

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