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Bhopal Lok Sabha Elections

The Bhopal parliamentary constituency is one of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in the state of Madhya Pradesh, situated in the central parts of India.

As per the Delimitation Commission of India’s Order of 2008, the total number of assembly constituencies which comprise the Bhopal seat is eight, out of which Berasia in the Bhopal district is reserved for candidates belonging to the scheduled castes and the others are not reserved for the marginalised sections of the society.

The Assembly Constituencies that fall in Bhopal parliamentary constituency are - Berasia (SC), Bhopal Uttar, Narela, Bhopal Dakshin-Paschim, Bhopal Madhya, Govindpura, Huzur and Sehore.

The election in this constituency will be held in the sixth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha polls on May 12. In total, the polling in the sixth phase will be held in 9 constituencies spread across seven states on May 12.

In Madhya Pradesh, the polling will be held in Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsour, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone and Khandwa on May 12.

Alok Sanjar of BJP was elected as the Member of Lok Sabha from this seat in the 2014 polls. Sanjar secured 714178 votes and defeated P C Sharma of the INC.

In 2009 polls, Kailash Joshi of BJP had won this seat.

For the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP has nominated Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur as its candidate from the Bhopal seat. She is pitted against Congress veteran and former state chief minister Digvijaya Singh.

Madhya Pradesh had 40 Lok Sabha constituencies before the separation of Chhattisgarh in 2000. At present, there are 29 Lok Sabha constituencies including Gwalior, Guna, Chhindwara, Vidisha and Indore.

The Election Commission had on March 10 announced the dates for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The general elections will take place in seven phases between April 11 and May 19, and the results will be declared on May 23.

Along with Lok Sabha Elections, voting will also take place in this phase for Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha Assembly Elections 2019.

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur	BJP	Won	866482
Digvijaya Singh	INC	Lost	501660
Madho Singh Ahirwar	BSP	Lost	11277
Nota	Nota	Lost	5430
Dr. Veena Ghanekar Rtd. Ias	SPKP	Lost	3264
Ramsushil Sharma E/X/C.R.P.F	SUP	Lost	2819
Lata Suryawanshi	SMVP	Lost	2688
Rajesh Keer	BMP	Lost	1439
Deshmukh Riyazuddin Ghayasuddin	IND	Lost	1251
Raj Kumar Shakya (Kori)	JAP	Lost	883
Gautam Nagdavane	APOI	Lost	856
Devendra Prakash Mishra	IND	Lost	854
Sunil Kumar Dodeja	IND	Lost	852
Md. Iqbal Khan	SIP	Lost	844
Kamlesh Dangi Thakur	HND	Lost	686
Ca Pramod Bhojwani	SSRD	Lost	572
Bhaurao Vithoba Fulzele	BPHP	Lost	538
Abdul Tahir Ansari (Bablu) Advocate Patrkar And Samajsewak	SWBI	Lost	527
Bal Ram Singh Tomar	BSCP	Lost	497
Mukesh Kumar Gupta	IND	Lost	485
Piyush Jain	RTRP	Lost	484
J.C. Barai	SUCI	Lost	479
Prabha Bharti	JLP	Lost	473
Praveen Singh Thakur(Praveena Thakur)	IND	Lost	456
Shrimati Hemlata Pathak	SRDP	Lost	418
Mahendra Kumar	IND	Lost	365
Moh. Ateek	IND	Lost	331
Kamlesh Namdev	IND	Lost	286
Priyanka Khare	IND	Lost	278
Mahendra -Katiyar	IND	Lost	265
Alok Kumar	IND	Lost	215

Bhopal News

Congress workers wave black flags to Jyotiraditya Scindia in Bhopal; Shivraj Singh Chouhan calls it 'life-threatening attack'

According to the police, Congress workers tried to stop Scindia's motorcade near Kamla Park and wave black flags to him on Friday evening.

Mar 14, 2020, 09:35 AM IST

Madhya Pradesh Economic Offences Wing reopens forgery case against BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia

Ideology which killed Mahatma Gandhi won in Lok Sabha election 2019, says Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on BJP's Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur

Congress' Digvijaya Singh lost to BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur by a huge margin of 3,64,822 votes in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. The BJP swept Madhya Pradesh winning 28 of the 29 seats in

May 24, 2019, 17:46 PM IST