# Pohari Assembly constituency

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Constituency of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Pohari Constituency No. 24 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituency details Country India Region Central India State Madhya Pradesh District Shivpuri Lok Sabha constituency Gwalior Established 1951 Reservation None Member of Legislative Assembly 16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Incumbent Kailash Kushwah Party Indian National Congress Elected year 2023 Preceded by Suresh Dhakad

**Pohari Assembly constituency** (formerly, **Pohri**) is one of the 230 [Vidhan Sabha](/source/Madhya_Pradesh_Vidhan_Sabha) (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of [Madhya Pradesh](/source/Madhya_Pradesh) state in central [India](/source/India).[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as Sheopur Pohri, one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile [Madhya Bharat](/source/Madhya_Bharat) state.[2]

## Overview

Pohari (constituency number 24) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in [Shivpuri district](/source/Shivpuri_district). This constituency covers the entire Pohari [tehsil](/source/Tehsil) and parts of Shivpuri and Narwar tehsils of the district.[3]

Pohari is part of [Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency](/source/Gwalior_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)) along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, [Karera](/source/Karera_Assembly_constituency) in this district and [Gwalior Rural](/source/Gwalior_Rural_Assembly_constituency), [Gwalior](/source/Gwalior_Assembly_constituency), [Gwalior East](/source/Gwalior_East_Assembly_constituency), [Gwalior South](/source/Gwalior_South_Assembly_constituency), [Bhitarwar](/source/Bhitarwar_Assembly_constituency) and [Dabra](/source/Dabra_Assembly_constituency) in [Gwalior district](/source/Gwalior_district).[3]

## Members of Legislative Assembly

Madhya Bharat Election Name Party 1952 Malkhan Singh Rawat Indian National Congress

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election Name Party 1962 Tularam Indian National Congress 1967 B. Arjun Bharatiya Jana Sangh 1972 Babu Lal 1977 Damodar Prasad Janata Party 1980 Hari Vallabh Shukla Indian National Congress (Indira) 1985 Himanshu Sharma Indian National Congress 1990 Jadish Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 1993 Baijanti Verma Independent politician 1998 Narendra Birthare Bharatiya Janata Party 2003 Hari Vallabh Shukla Rashtriya Samanta Dal 2008[4] Prahlad Bharti Bharatiya Janata Party 2013[5] 2018 Suresh Dhakad Indian National Congress 2020^ Bharatiya Janata Party 2023 Kailash Kushwah Indian National Congress

^ byelection

## Election results

### 2023

2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pohari[6] Party Candidate Votes % ±% INC Kailash Kushwah 99,739 51.57 +26.36 BJP Suresh Dhakad 50,258 25.99 −13.23 BSP Pradhumna Verma (Bachaura) 37,261 19.27 −6.65 NOTA None of the above 1,556 0.8 −0.25 Majority 49,481 25.58 +12.28 Turnout 193,408 79.37 +3.02 INC gain from BJP Swing

### 2020 bypolls

2020 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-elections: Pohari[7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% BJP Suresh Dhakad 66,344 39.22 +16.45 BSP Kailash Kushwah 43,848 25.92 −6.30 INC Hari Vallabh Shukla 42,638 25.21 −11.85 Independent Param Singh Rawat 8,079 4.78 API Ummed Singh Adiwashi 1,543 0.91 NOTA None of the above 1,783 1.05 +0.79 Majority 22,496 13.30 +8.46 Turnout 169,147 76.35 +0.47 BJP gain from INC Swing

### 2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pohari[8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% INC Suresh Dhakad 60,654 37.06 BSP Kailash Kushwah 52,736 32.22 BJP Prahlad Bharti 37,268 22.77 Independent Rakesh Rajak 2,271 1.39 NOTA None of the above 428 0.26 Majority 7,918 4.84 Turnout 163,666 75.88 INC gain from BJP Swing

## See also

- [Shivpuri district](/source/Shivpuri_district)

- [Pohari](/source/Pohari)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-eci1_1-0)** ["District/Assembly List"](https://web.archive.org/web/20151201083311/http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/(S(4ftawu55w1soru45gswzuz55))/DACList.aspx). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from [the original](http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/DACList.aspx) on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-eci2_2-0)** ["Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110721155640/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MB.pdf) (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5. Archived from [the original](http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MB.pdf) (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2011.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ceo_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ceo_3-1) ["Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008"](http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf) (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 228, 250.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ceomp1_4-0)** ["Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)"](http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/OtherLinks/Election_Result_2008.pdf) (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 10 February 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ceomp2_5-0)** ["Assembly Election Result 2013-Form 21-E (Shivpuri)"](http://ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in/AE%202013/6.pdf) (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-election2023_6-0)** ["Madhya Pradesh General Legislative Election 2023 Statistical Report"](https://www.eci.gov.in/mp-legislative-election-2023-statistical-report). *[Election Commission of India](/source/Election_Commission_of_India)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-byelection2020_7-0)** ["Bye Elections 2020 (Parliamentary and Assemblies)"](https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/12753-bye-elections-2020-parliamentary-and-assemblies/). [Election Commission of India](/source/Election_Commission_of_India). Retrieved 25 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-election2018_8-0)** ["Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh"](https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/9685-madhya-pradesh-legislative-election-2018-statistical-report/). [Election Commission of India](/source/Election_Commission_of_India). Retrieved 30 September 2021.

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