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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Bijawar
| type = SLA
| constituency_no = 52
| map_image = 52-Bijawar.svg
| mla = [[Rajesh Shukla]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| latest_election_year = [[2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2023]]
| preceded_by = [[Pushpendra Nath Pathak]]
| state = [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| district = [[Chhatarpur district|Chhatarpur]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency|Tikamgarh]]
| established = 1951
| reservation = None
}}

'''Bijawar Assembly constituency''' is one of the 230 [[Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha|Vidhan Sabha]] (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state in central [[India]].<ref name=eci1>{{cite web|url=http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/DACList.aspx|title=District/Assembly List|publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website|access-date=23 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201083311/http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/(S(4ftawu55w1soru45gswzuz55))/DACList.aspx|archive-date=1 December 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile [[Vindhya Pradesh]] state.<ref name=eci2>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_VP.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh|page=4|publisher=Election Commission of India website}}</ref>

{{Short description|Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh}}

==Overview==
Bijawar (constituency number 52) is one of the 6 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in [[Chhatarpur district]]. This constituency covers the Satai and Bijawar [[nagar panchayat]]s and parts of Chhatarpur, Bijawar and Rajnagar [[tehsil]]s of the district.<ref name="ceo">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|publisher=The Election Commission of India|pages=230, 250}}</ref>

Bijawar is part of [[Tikamgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency]] along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, [[Maharajpur (Madhya Pradesh Assembly constituency)|Maharajpur]] and [[Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) Assembly constituency|Chhatarpur]] in this district and [[Jatara Assembly constituency|Jatara]], [[Prithvipur Assembly constituency|Prithvipur]], [[Niwari Assembly constituency|Niwari]], [[Tikamgarh Assembly constituency|Tikamgarh]] and [[Khargapur Assembly constituency|Khargapur]] in [[Tikamgarh district]].<ref name="ceo"/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==

=== Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Election
!Name
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1952 Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1951]]<ref name="eci2" />
|Diwan Pratap Singh
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|Pyare Lal
|}

=== Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Election
!Name
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1957 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1957]]<ref name="General Elections of MP 1957">{{cite web |year=2004 |title=General Elections of MP 1957 |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_MP_1957.pdf |publisher=Election Commission of India |page=10}}</ref>
|Gayatri Devi
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[Hansraj (Bijawar)|Hansraj]]
|-
|[[1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Govind Singh Judev
|{{Full party name with color|Independent}}
|-
|[[1967 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|K. Nath
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1972 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Yadvendra Singh
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
|[[1977 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Mukund Sakharam
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|[[1980 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|Yadvendra Singh
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress (Indira)|dab=y}}
|-
|[[1985 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| rowspan="2" |Jujhar Singh Bundela
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1990 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1990]]
|-
|[[1993 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
| rowspan="2" |Manvendra Singh
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1998]]
|-
|[[2003 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2003]]
|Jitendra Singh Bundela
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2008]]<ref name="ceom">{{cite web |title=Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi) |url=http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/OtherLinks/Election_Result_2008.pdf |access-date=23 February 2011 |publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website}}</ref>
|Asharani
|-
|[[2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2013]]
|[[Pushpendra Nath Pathak]]
|-
|[[2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2018]]<ref name="election2018" />
| rowspan="2" | [[Rajesh Kumar (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Rajesh Shukla]]
|{{Full party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
| [[2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2023]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|}

==Election results==
=== 2023 ===
{{Election box begin
|title = [[2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Bijawar<ref name="election2023">{{Cite web |title=Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2020 |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/mp-legislative-election-2023-statistical-report |website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Rajesh Kumar (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Rajesh Shukla]]
|votes = {{formatnum:88223}}
|percentage = 52.59
|change = {{increase}}31.21
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Charan Singh Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:55761}}
|percentage = 33.24
|change = {{increase}}16.83
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Mahendra Kumar Gupta
|votes = {{formatnum:10443}}
|percentage = 6.23
|change = {{decrease}}0.22
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Aam Aadmi Party
|candidate = Amit Bhatnagar
|votes = {{formatnum:4185}}
|percentage = 2.49
|change = {{increase}}1.15
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
|candidate = Chetram Ahirwar
|votes = {{formatnum:1885}}
|percentage = 1.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1433}}
|percentage = 0.85
|change = {{increase}}0.39
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:32462}}
|percentage = 19.35
|change = {{decrease}}6.05
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:167743}}
|percentage = 72.67
|change = {{increase}}2.47
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Samajwadi Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2018 ===
{{Election box begin | title= [[2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Bijawar<ref name=election2018>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/9685-madhya-pradesh-legislative-election-2018-statistical-report/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |accessdate=30 September 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Rajesh Shukla (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Rajesh Shukla]]
|party = Samajwadi Party
|votes = {{formatnum:67623}}
|percentage = 46.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Pushpendra Nath Pathak]]
|votes = {{formatnum:30909}}
|percentage = 21.38
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Shankar Pratap Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:23726}}
|percentage = 16.41
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Anupama Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:9318}}
|percentage = 6.45
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Aam Aadmi Party
|candidate = Amit Bhatnagar
|votes = {{formatnum:1943}}
|percentage = 1.34
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Deepak Bhaiya
|votes = {{formatnum:1902}}
|percentage = 1.32
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:663}}
|percentage = 0.46
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:36714}}
|percentage = 25.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:144543}}
|percentage = 70.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Samajwadi Party
|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[Bijawar]]
* [[Satai]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Chhatarpur district topics}}
{{Assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh}}
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[[Category:Chhatarpur district]]
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Politics of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]

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