Chhatarpur Assembly constituency is one of the 230

Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislati ...

(Legislative Assembly) constituencies of

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

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

Vindhya Pradesh Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India. It occupied an area of 23,603 sq. miles. It was created in 1948 as Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, shortly after Indian independence, from the territories of the princely states in the e ...

state.

Overview

Chhatarpur (constituency number 51) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Chhatarpur district. This constituency covers the Chhatarpur municipality and part of Chhatarpur

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

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

Bijawar Bijawar is a city the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bijawar Taluk, and was formerly the capital of a princely state of British India of the same name. The people of Bijawar are demanding the distric ...

in this district and

Jatara Jatara is a town and a nagar palika parishad in Tikamgarh district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Geography Jatara is located at . It has an average elevation of 246 metres (807 feet).it is situated near Khajuraho and Orchha. ...

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: Govinda,

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

/ Panna Lal,

As from a constituency of Madhya Pradesh: * 1957: Govind Das,

/ Dasrath,

* 1962: Ram Swaroop,

Bharatiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

* 1967: Mahendra Kumar,

* 1972: Mahendra Kumar,

* 1977: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam,

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

* 1980: Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela,

* 1985: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam,

* 1990: Jagadamba Prasad Nigam,

Janata Dal Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 ...

* 1993: Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela,

* 1998: Umesh Shukla,

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

* 2003: Vikram Singh,

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

* 2008:

Lalita Yadav Lalita Yadav (born 22 April 1961) is a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. She was elected from Chhatarpur seat in the 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections. She belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party ...

* 2013:

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