Jatara Assembly constituency

Jatara
Constituency No. 44 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Tikamgarh
LS constituency	Tikamgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	SC

Jatara 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.^[1] It came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.^[2]

Overview

Jatara (constituency number 44) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Tikamgarh district. This constituency covers the Jatara and Lidhorakhas nagar panchayats and parts of Jatara and Palera tehsils of the district.^[3]

Jatara is part of Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Tikamgarh, Prithvipur, Niwari and Khargapur in this district and Maharajpur, Chhatarpur and Bijawar in Chhatarpur district.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

As a constituency of Madhya Bharat

• 1951: Narayan Das, Indian National Congress^[2]

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh

Election	Name	Party
1957	Kamta Prasad		Indian National Congress
1962	Narendra Singh Dev		Independent
1967	Narendra Singh Dev		Indian National Congress
1977	Akhand Pratap Singh Yadav		Janata Party
1980	Swami Prasad Pastor		Independent
1985	Thakurdas Yadav		Indian National Congress
1990	Surendra Pratap Singh Bundela Baby Raja		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Akhand Pratap Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress
1998	Sunil Nayak		Bharatiya Janata Party
2003	Sunil Nayak
2008	Harishankar Khatik
2013	Dinesh Kumar Ahirwar		Indian National Congress
2018	Harishankar Khatik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023

Election results

2013

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jatara^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dinesh Kumar Ahirwar	51,149	39.90
	BJP	Harishankar Khatik	50916	39.72
	MD	Santosh	15516	12.10
	BSP	Anil Ravi	3310	2.58	N/A
	ABGP	Dinesh Ahirwar	1289	1.01
	SP	Kewra Devi Khangar	1130	0.88	N/A
	Independent	Suresh	938	0.73
	Independent	Satish Ahirwar	934	0.73
	Independent	Duli Chandra Ahirwar	654	0.51
	Independent	Bhagchandra Ahirwar	611	0.48
	NOTA	None of the Above	1755	1.37
Majority
Turnout			128202	70.69
	Swing to INC from BJP		Swing

See also

• Jatara
• Lidhorakhas

References

1. "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
2. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 230, 250.
4. "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh - Detailed Results" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

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