Gwalior Assembly constituency

{{Short description|Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Gwalior

| type= SLA

| constituency_no = 15

| map_image = Vidhan_Sabha_constituencies_of_Madhya_Pradesh_(15-Gwalior).png

| mla = Pradhuman Singh Tomar

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| state = Madhya Pradesh

| district = Gwalior

| loksabha_cons = Gwalior

| established = 1951

| reservation = None

}}

Gwalior Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.{{cite web|url=http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/DACList.aspx|title=District/Assembly List|publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website|access-date=5 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}} This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.{{cite web|url=http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MB.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat|page=5|publisher=Election Commission of India website|access-date=2011-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721155640/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MB.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-21|url-status=dead}}

Overview

Gwalior (constituency number 15) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Gwalior district. This constituency covers the ward numbers 1 to 18 and 30 to 33 of the Gwalior Municipal Corporation.{{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=227, 250}}

Gwalior is part of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Gwalior Rural, Gwalior East, Gwalior South, Bhitarwar and Dabra in this district and Karera and Pohari in Shivpuri district.

Members of Legislative Assembly

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

!Name

!colspan=2|Party

1952

| Purshottam Rao Inamdar

| {{Full party name with color|Hindu Mahasabha}}

1977

| Jagdish Gupta

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

1980

| Tara Singh Viyogi

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress (I)|dab=yes}}

1985

| rowspan=2|Dharamvir

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

1990
1993

| Raghuvir Singh

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

1998

| rowspan=2|Narendra Singh Tomar

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

2003
2008

| Pradhuman Singh Tomar

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

2013

| Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya

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

2018

| rowspan=3|Pradhuman Singh Tomar

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

2020^

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

2023

  • ^ by-election

Election results

=2023=

{{Election box begin | title= 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gwalior}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|candidate = Pradhuman Singh Tomar

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 1,04,775

|percentage = 52.92

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|candidate = Sunil Sharma

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 85,635

|percentage = 43.26

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|candidate = None of the Above

|party = None of the above

|votes = 905

|percentage = 0.46

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 19,140

|percentage = 9.66

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes =

|percentage = 65.29

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = BJP

|loser =

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=2018=

{{Election box begin | title= 2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gwalior{{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 |access-date=30 September 2021}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|candidate = Pradhuman Singh Tomar

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 92,005

|percentage = 52.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|candidate = Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya

|party = BJP

|votes = 71,011

|percentage = 40.42

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|candidate = None of the Above

|party = None of the above

|votes = 1,109

|percentage = 0.63

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 21,004

|percentage = 11.98

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,75,676

|percentage = 63.37

|change =

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Indian National Congress

|loser = BJP

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

See also

References