Amarpatan (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Amarpatan Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: अमरपाटन विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) 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
As a constituency of Vindhya Pradesh:
- 1951: Lal Bihari Singh, Indian National Congress[2]
As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh:
- 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 (I)
- 1985: Ramhit Gupta, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1990: Ramhit Gupta, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1993: Rajendra Kumar Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1998: Shivmohan Singh, Indian National Congress
- 2003: Rajendra Kumar Singh, Indian National Congress
- 2008: Ramkhelawan Patel, Bharatiya Janata Party[4]
- 2013: Rajendra Kumar Singh, Indian national Congress
References
- ↑ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
- 1 2 "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
- 1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 232, 250.
- ↑ "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 1 March 2011.