Bijawar Assembly constituency is one of the 230

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(Legislative Assembly) constituencies of

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state in central

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. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile

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state.

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Bijawar (constituency number 52) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the Satai and Bijawar

nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...

s and parts of Chhatarpur, Bijawar and Rajnagar

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s of the district. Bijawar is part of Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Maharajpur and

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in this district and

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Prithvipur Prithvipur is a town and a nagar parishad in Niwari district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Prithvipur tehsil in the Niwari sub-division of the district. Demographics India census A census is ...

, Niwari,

Tikamgarh Tikamgarh is a Census town#India, town and a tehsil in Tikamgarh district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The city serves as a district headquarters. The earlier name of Tikamgarh was Tehri (i.e., a triangle) consisting of three hamlet ...

and Khargapur in Tikamgarh district.

Members of Legislative Assembly

As from a constituency of Vindhya Pradesh: * 1951: Diwan Pratap Singh,

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/ Piyare Lal, Indian National Congress As from a constituency of Madhya Pradesh: *

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: Gayatri Devi and Hansraj, both from the Indian National Congress * 1962: Govind Singh Ju Deo,

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* 1967: K. Nath, Indian National Congress * 1972: Yadvendra Singh,

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* 1977: Mukund Sakharam,

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* 1980: Yadvendra Singh,

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* 1985: Jujhar Singh Bundela,

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* 1990: Jujhar Singh Bundela, Bharatiya Janata Party * 1993: Manvendra Singh, Indian National Congress * 1998: Manvendra Singh, Indian National Congress * 2003: Jitendra Singh Bundela, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2008: Asharani, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2013 Pushpendranath Pathak "Guddan Bhaiya" Bhartiya Janta Party

Election results

2018

References

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Overview

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2018

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