Ashok Nagar Assembly constituency

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{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Ashok Nagar

| type= SLA

| constituency_no = 32

| map_image = Vidhan_Sabha_constituencies_of_Madhya_Pradesh_(32-Ashok Nagar).png

| state = Madhya Pradesh

| district = Ashok Nagar

| loksabha_cons = Guna

| established = 1957

| reservation = SC

| mla = Haribaboo Rahi

| party = INC

}}

Ashok Nagar is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following the delimitation of the Legislative Assembly constituencies.{{cite web|url=http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/DACList.aspx|title=District/Assembly List|publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website|access-date=14 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201083311/http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/(S(4ftawu55w1soru45gswzuz55))/DACList.aspx|archive-date=1 December 2015|url-status=dead}} It came into existence in 1957, as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state.{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_MP_1957.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh|page=4|publisher=Election Commission of India website}}

Overview

Ashok Nagar (constituency number 32) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Ashok Nagar district. This constituency presently covers the entire Ashok Nagar tehsil of the district.{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|publisher=The Election Commission of India|pages=229, 250}}

Ashok Nagar is part of Guna Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Chanderi and Mungaoli in this district, Bamori and in Guna in Guna district, Shivpuri, Pichhore and Kolaras in Shivpuri district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

As a double member constituency:

1957: Ram Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress / Dulichand, Indian National Congress

As a single member constituency:

1962: Ram Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress
1967: Multanmal, Swatantra Party
1972: Mahendra Singh, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977: Chiman Lal Guljarilal, Janata Party
1980: Mahender Singh, Indian National Congress (I)
1985: Ravindra Singh, Indian National Congress
1990: Neelam Singh Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party
1993: Neelam Singh Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party
1998: Balveer Singh Kushawah, Bahujan Samaj Party
2003: Jagannath Singh Raghuwanshi, Bharatiya Janata Party
2008: Ladduram Kori, Bharatiya Janata Party{{cite web|title=Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)|url=http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/OtherLinks/Election_Result_2008.pdf|publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website|access-date=14 February 2011}}
2013: Gopilal Jatav, Bharatiya Janta Party
2018: Jaipal Singh Jajji,{{cite web |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS1232.htm?ac=32|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223850/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS1232.htm?ac=32 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |title=Constituencywise-All Candidates|access-date= 16 December 2018}} Indian National Congress

class="wikitable sortable"

!Election

!Name

!colspan=2|Party

2020^

|Jaipal Singh Jajji{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/9685-madhya-pradesh-legislative-election-2018-statistical-report/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh |publisher=Election Commission of India |accessdate=30 September 2021}}

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

2023

| Haribaboo Rai

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

^By poll

Election results

=2023=

{{Election box begin | title= 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ashok Nagar{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/9685-madhya-pradesh-legislative-election-2023-statistical-report/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh |publisher=Election Commission of India |accessdate=4 December 2023}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|candidate = Haribaboo rai

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 86,180

|percentage = 49.87%

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|candidate = Jaipal singh Jajji

|party = Bhartiya Janta party

|votes = 77,807

|percentage = 45.03%