Datia Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh

Datia
Constituency No. 22 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Datia
LS constituency	Bhind
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rajendra Bharti
Party	Indian National Congress

Datia 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

Datia (constituency number 22) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Datia district. This constituency covers the entire Datia Municipality and part of Datia tehsil of the district.^[3]

Datia is part of Bhind Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bhander and Sewda in this district and Bhind, Ater, Lahar, Mehgaon and Gohad in Bhind district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vindhya Pradesh
Year	Member	Party
1952	Shyam Sunder Shyam		Indian National Congress

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Year	Member
1957	Shyam Sunder Shyam	Indian National Congress
1962	Pandit Surya Deo Sharma	Independent politician
1967	Shyam Sunder Shyam	Jana Congress
1972	Gulab Chand Kanoolal	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Shyam Sunder Shyam	Indian National Congress
1980	Shyam Sunder Shyam	Indian National Congress
1985	Rajendra Kumar Bharti	Indian National Congress
1990	Shambhu Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ghanshyam Singh	Indian National Congress
1998	Rajendra Kumar Bharti	Samajwadi Party
2003	Ghanshyam Singh	Indian National Congress
2008	Narottam Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013
2018^[4]
2023	Rajendra Kumar Bharti	Indian National Congress

Election results

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Datia^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Narottam Mishra	72,209	49
	INC	Rajendra Bharti	69,553	47.20
Majority			2656
Turnout
	BJP gain from		Swing

2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Datia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajendra Bharti	88,977	50.34	+3.14
	BJP	Narottam Mishra	81,235	45.96	-3.04
Majority			7,742
Turnout				79.40
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	4.38

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 5 February 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. 228, 250.
^ ^a ^b "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.