Madhya Pradesh Election 2023 Constituency List

Polling for the high-stakes Madhya Pradesh assembly election 2023 was held on November 17, a spotlight shines on crucial constituencies that hold the destiny of prominent leaders from both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress. The results of the 230-member legislative assembly election will be declared on December 3. While the assembly poll features the ruling BJP, Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the primary battle in the Hindi heartland remains between the BJP and the Congress. The BJP has fielded incumbent chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from the Budhni assembly constituency. The Congress has pitted actor Vikram Mastal against him. The 40-year-old played the role of 'Hanuman' in the 2008 TV serial 'Ramayan 2'. In the Chhindwara assembly constituency, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath contested from his home turf against BJP's Vivek Bunty Sahu, former Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president for Chhindwara district. Kamal Nath had won the by-elections from Chhindwara in 2019 by defeating BJP's Sahu by a margin of 25,837 votes. Kamal Nath's tenure as chief minister ended in March 2020 following the rebellion by his party colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia, which led to Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government coming back to power in the state. Former CM Digvijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh has been fielded from his 'family' bastion, the Raghogarh constituency. Scindia has persuaded Hirendra Singh, alias Bunty Banna, son of Digvijaya Singh's cousin Mool Singh, into the BJP camp. Banna has been fielded against Jaivardhan Singh from Raghogarh by the BJP. BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya contested from the Indore-1 constituency. The former Indore mayor has been pitted against Congress' Sanjay Shukla. Though Shukla had won the 2018 assembly elections from Indore-1, the constituency had traditionally been a BJP stronghold. Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel, yet another BJP heavyweight, has been fielded from Narsingpur.

The Congress has fielded Lakhan Singh Patel, who will compete against Prahlad Singh Patel in Narsingpur. Lakhan lost the battle to BJP's Jalam Singh Patel in the 2018 assembly election. Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra contested from the Datia seat. Mishra was up against Congress' Avdhesh Nayak, a former RSS functionary. Mishra, a two-time MLA from the BJP, had defeated Congress' Bharti Rajendra in the 2018 poll with 72,209 votes. In the Lahar assembly constituency, the BJP has fielded Ambrish Sharma to contest against Congress's Govind Singh. Singh has the record of recording seven consecutive wins from Lahar. The BJP wanted to make inroads into this Congress bastion. ...read more