About Charkhari Assembly Constituency
Charkhari is constituency No. 231 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. It is situated in Mahoba district and comes under Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, Charkhari has 3,13,564 registered voters. It comprises 1,72,108 male and 1,41,452 female registered voters besides four more in the Others category.
In the last assembly elections held in 2012, senior BJP leader Uma Bharti defeated her Samajwadi Party rival Kaptan Singh by a formidable margin of 25,265 votes. While Uma Bharti bagged 66,888 votes, SP candidate Kaptan Singh, who was her nearest contender, got 41,623. The voter turnout was 61.43 %.
About Charkhari Assembly (Vidha Sabha) Constituency – Bye Elections 2014
The by-polls of the Charkhari assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh have been scheduled to be held on September 13, 2014. The Vidhan Sabha seat fell vacant because the sitting MLA Uma Bharti from BJP won the 2014 Lok Sabha general elections 2014 from the Jhansi constituency.
In these 2014 by-polls Geeta Singh from BJP, Ramjivan Dada from Congress and Shabbir Ahmad Valmiki from Samajwadi Party will contest the election for the Charkhari MLA seat. The Bahujan Samaj Party has opted out of the by-polls stating its principles of not contesting by-polls. This time the stakes are high on BJP and SP since BJP swept the entire nation in the recent Lok Sabha elections and SP because is the ruling party in the state.
The Assembly Election in the constituency were last held in 2012 and BJP’s Uma Bharti had won the Vidhan Sabha seat after defeating Kaptan Singh of SP.
Charkhari, which has over 3 lakh electors is a different constituency since except for Congress which was in power from 1977 to 1989, none of the other parties have been able to come to power in this constituency year after year. Every election held since 1989 witnessed a victory of a different party.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Charkhari Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Charkhari assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2022 | 231 | Charkhari | GEN | Brijbhushan Rajpoot | M | BJP | 1,02,051 | Ramjeevan Yadav | M | SP | 60,170 |
| 2017 | 231 | Charkhari | GEN | Brijbhushan Rajpoot Alias Guddu Bhaiya | M | BJP | 98360 | Urmila Devi | M | SP | 54346 |
| 2014 | Bye Poll | Charkhari | GEN | Kaptan Singh | M | SP | 50805 | Ramjeevan | M | INC | 44203 |
| 2012 | 231 | Charkhari | GEN | Uma Bharti | F | BJP | 66888 | Kaptan Singh | M | SP | 41623 |
| 2007 | 308 | Charkhari | (SC) | Anil Kumar Ahirwar | M | BSP | 39330 | Ambesh Kumari | F | SP | 32386 |
| 2002 | 308 | Charkhari | (SC) | Ambesh Kumari | F | SP | 25061 | Pushpa | F | BJP | 21403 |
| 1996 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Chhote Lal | M | BJP | 36245 | Udai Prakash | M | BSP | 25866 |
| 1993 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Udai Prakash | M | BSP | 29249 | Chhotey Lal | M | BJP | 28372 |
| 1991 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Mihi Lal | M | INC | 20716 | Chhote Lal | M | BJP | 18955 |
| 1989 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Kashi Prasad | M | JD | 31361 | Mihi Lal | M | INC | 26838 |
| 1985 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Mihi Lal | M | INC | 29931 | Kashi Prasad | M | LKD | 6792 |
| 1980 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Mohan Lal | M | INC(I) | 16011 | Kashi Prasad | M | JNP(SC) | 10193 |
| 1977 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Mohan Lal | M | INC | 15854 | Thakur Das | M | IND | 14296 |
| 1974 | 324 | Charkhari | (SC) | Kashi Prasad | M | BKD | 22091 | Mihi Lal | M | INC | 17807 |
| 1969 | 328 | Charkhari | GEN | Chandra Narain Singh | M | BJS | 16216 | Rajendra Kumar | M | INC | 15892 |
| 1967 | 328 | Charkhari | GEN | J.Singh | M | IND | 35054 | M.Singh | M | INC | 16676 |
| 1962 | 307 | Charkhari | (SC) | Mohan Lal Ahirwar | M | INC | 15078 | Chhannu Lal | M | PSP | 10606 |
Last Updated on March 17, 2023