Dongargaon Assembly constituency

Legislative Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh State, India

Dongargaon
Constituency No. 76 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Rajnandgaon
LS constituency	Rajnandgaon
Established	1951
Total electors	203,009^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Daleshwar Sahu
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023
Preceded by	Kheduram Sahu

Dongargaon is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India.^[2]^[3] It is in Rajnandgaon district and is a segment of Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. The seat used to be part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly when Chhattisgarh was part of MP.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madhya Pradesh Assembly

Year	Member
1952	Dhannalal Jain	Indian National Congress
1957	Dhannalal Jain
1962	Ganeshmal Bhandari
1967	Madan Tiwari	Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	S. Jairam Ayyar	Indian National Congress
1977	Vidya Bhushan Thakur	Janata Party
1980	Hiraram Verma	Indian National Congress
1985	Hiraram Verma	Indian National Congress
1990	Gita Devi Singh
1993
1998

Chhattisgarh Assembly

Election	Name
2003	Pradeep Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004^	Raman Singh
2008	Kheduram Sahu
2013	Daleshwar Sahu^[4]	Indian National Congress
2018
2023

^: by-polls

Election results

2023

2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Dongargaon^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Daleshwar Sahu	81,479	47.49	-4.88
	BJP	Bharat Lal Varma	78,690	45.86	+5.31
	Hamar Raj Party	Chhattar Ram Chandrawanshi	5,178	3.02
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,258	1.32	-0.08
Majority			2,789	1.63	-10.19
Turnout			171,570	84.51	-0.92
	INC hold		Swing

2018

2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election: Dongargaon^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Daleshwar Sahu	84,581	52.37
	BJP	Madhusudan Yadav	65,498	40.55
	Independent	Vani Vilash Patel	1,863	1.15
	Independent	Rekchand Mandle	1,782	1.1
	BSP	Ashok Verma	1,482	0.92
	AAP	Chandramani Verma	1,474	0.91
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,257	1.4
Majority			19,083	11.82
Turnout			160,841	85.43
	INC hold		Swing

2004 Bypoll

Dr. Raman Singh (BJP) : 42,115 votes^[6]
Geeta Devi Singh (INC) : 32,004

2003

Pradeep Gandhi (BJP) : 42,784 votes^[6]
Geeta Devi Singh (INC) : 36,649

1998

Smt. Gita Devi Singh (INC) : 25,125 votes^[7]
Ashok Sharma (BJP) : 24,247

1980

Hiraram Verma (INC-I) : 11,487 votes^[8]
Vidyabhushan Thakur (JNP-SR) : 8,833

References

^ ^a ^b "Statistical Report on General Election, 2023 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ "New Maps of Assembly Constituency". ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
^ ^a ^b "State Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly Of Chhattisgarh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
^ "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Results in 2018". elections.in. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Results in 2003". elections.in. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1998". elections.in. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1980". elections.in. Retrieved 26 June 2020.