Kolaras Assembly constituency is one of the 230

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(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 Shivpuri Kolaras, one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile

Madhya Bharat Madhya Bharat, also known as Malwa Union, was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramukh. ...

state. This constituency was reserved for the candidates belonging to the

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from 1976 to 2008.

Overview

Kolaras (constituency number 27) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Shivpuri district. This constituency covers the entire Kolaras

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. Kolaras is part of Guna Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Pichhore and

Shivpuri Shivpuri is a city and a municipality in Shivpuri district located in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is in the Gwalior Division of northwest Madhya Pradesh and is the administrative headquarters of Shivpuri District. It is sit ...

in this district, Bamori and Guna in Guna district and Ashok Nagar,

Chanderi Chanderi, is a town of historical importance in Ashoknagar District of the state Madhya Pradesh in India. It is situated at a distance of 127 km from Shivpuri, 37 km from Lalitpur, 55 km from Ashok Nagar and about 46 km f ...

and

Mungaoli Mungaoli is a town and a nagar panchayat in Ashoknagar district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is situated on the Bina-Kota railway line. Ganesh Shankar Vidhyarti has taken the Education from Mungaoli. It is situated near the Histori ...

Ashoknagar district Ashoknagar District is a List of Indian districts, district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Ashoknagar (Madhya Pradesh), Ashoknagar is the administrative headquarters of the district. Ashoknagar district was formed in 2003. G ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

Shivpuri Kolaras constituency of Madhya Bharat

* 1951: Tula Ram,

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 ...

/ Narhari Prashad, Indian National Congress

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh

* 1957: Vedehi Charan, Indian National Congress * 1962: Manorama, Indian National Congress * 1967: Jagadish Prasad Verma,

Swatantra Party The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party, that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly soci ...

* 1972: Jagadish Prasad Verma,

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 ...

* 1977: Kamta Prasad,

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: Pooran Singh Bedia,

Indian National Congress (I) 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 ...

* 1985: Pooran Singh Bedia, Indian National Congress * 1990: Om Prakash Khatik,

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* 1993: Om Prakash Khatik, Bharatiya Janata Party * 1998: Pooran Singh Bedia, Indian National Congress * 2003: Om Prakash Khatik, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2008: Devendra Kumar Jain, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2013: Ram Singh Yadav, Indian National Congress *2018 (bypoll): Mahendra Singh Yadav

Election results

2018

References

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