Amarpatan Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Amarpatan
Constituency No. 66 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Satna
LS constituency	Satna
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramkhelawan Patel
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Amarpatan Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.^[2]

Overview

Amarpatan (constituency number 66) is one of the 7 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Satna district. This constituency covers the entire Ramnagar tehsil, Amarpatan nagar panchayat and part of Amarpatan tehsil of the district.^[3]

Amarpatan is part of Satna Lok Sabha constituency along with six other Vidhan Sabha segments of this district, namely, Chitrakoot, Raigaon, Satna, Nagod, Maihar and Rampur-Baghelan.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vindhya Pradesh
Election	Member	Party
1951	Lal Bihari Singh		Indian National Congress

Madhya Pradesh
Election	Member ^[4]
1957	Ramhit Gupta	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962	Gulsher Ahmad	Indian National Congress
1967	Ramhit Gupta	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Gulsher Ahmad	Indian National Congress
1977	Ramhit Gupta	Janata Party
1980	Rajendra Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
1985	Ramhit Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1990	Ramhit Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Rajendra Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
1998	Shivmohan Singh
2003	Rajendra Kumar Singh
2008	Ramkhelawan Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Rajendra Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
2018	Ramkhelawan Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Rajendra Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress

Election Results

2018 results

2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amarpatan^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajendra Kumar Singh (Dadabhai)	48,341	32.53
	BJP	Ramkhelawan Pate	6602	24.63
	BSP	Chhangelal Kol	35020	23.57	N/A
	GGP	Dharmendra Singh Tiwari	18113	12.19
	AD	Dadhibal Prasad Patel	1325	0.89	N/A
	Independent	Mohd. Khalil Khan	1147	0.77
	RPD	Dr. Shivlal Kushwaha	1117	0.75
	HJP	Saukhilal Patel	1076	0.72
	Independent	Dr. Sampat Patel	887	0.60
	NCP	Mathura Singh	789	0.53
	SP	Balendu Vishwakarma	638	0.43
	RPI(A)	Ramavatar Loni	566	0.38
	NOTA	None of the Above	2968	2.00
Majority
Turnout			148589	72.09
	Swing to INC from BJP		Swing

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 2015-12-01. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 232, 250.
^ "(Madhya Pradesh) Assembly Constituency Elections". elections.in. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
^ "State Election, 2013 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh - Detailed Results" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2018.