Chitrakoot is assembly constituency number 61 in Madhya Pradesh, in Satna district, and one of the segments of the Satna Lok Sabha seat. In the 2023 election Surendra Singh Gaharwar of the Bharatiya Janata Party won with 37.3% of the vote, 6,670 votes ahead of Neelanshu (INC).
- 01Surendra Singh GaharwarBJP58,00937.27%
- 02NeelanshuINC51,33932.99%
- 03Subhash Sharma "doli"BSP31,79720.43%
- 04Sanjay SinghSP6,3474.08%
- 05Ramlal KoriIndependent1,3300.85%
- 11 other candidates · 5,655 votesNOTA · 1,154 (0.74%)
Margin 6,670 votes · 4.29% of valid votes
All 16 candidates, ranked by votes. Vote share is of the 1,55,631 valid votes, NOTA included.
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surendra Singh GaharwarMale · 69 yrs | BJP | 58,009 | 37.27% |
| 2 | NeelanshuMale · 41 yrs | INC | 51,339 | 32.99% |
| 3 | Subhash Sharma "doli"Male · 45 yrs | BSP | 31,797 | 20.43% |
| 4 | Sanjay SinghMale · 42 yrs | SP | 6,347 | 4.08% |
| 5 | Ramlal KoriMale · 50 yrs · SC | Independent | 1,330 | 0.85% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 1,154 | 0.74% |
| 6 | Babulal ChaudharyMale · 43 yrs · SC | Independent | 1,063 | 0.68% |
| 7 | Er. Ashok Kumar ShuklaMale · 62 yrs | VNDHYJNTP | 812 | 0.52% |
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| 8 | Raj Kumar Urf Golu YadavMale · 50 yrs | Independent | 688 | 0.44% |
| 9 | Sarita Jay Prakash KushwahaFemale · 32 yrs | JANADIP | 617 | 0.40% |
| 10 | Kodu Lal BhartiMale · 53 yrs · SC | BHUDRP | 585 | 0.38% |
| 11 | Raja Ram Singh GondMale · 55 yrs · ST | AIFB | 406 | 0.26% |
| 12 | Krishna Kishor GautamMale · 51 yrs | Independent | 367 | 0.24% |
| 13 | Awadh Bihari MishraMale · 64 yrs | Independent | 352 | 0.23% |
| 14 | Yogesh Gautam Urf Guru Gorakh NathMale · 40 yrs | SNJSP | 317 | 0.20% |
| 15 | Bhaiyaman Prajapati BalkhadiyaMale · 36 yrs · SC | PPID | 225 | 0.14% |
| 16 | Sanjeev ShikdarMale · 44 yrs | NDS | 223 | 0.14% |
The seat changed hands: INC won in 2018, BJP in 2023.
General elections since the 2008 delimitation, plus bye-elections (dashed). Results from before the current boundaries are not compared.
Chitrakoot bye-election, 11 Sept 2017
Turnout 64.9% · 1,28,659 of 1,98,206 electors voted
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neelanshu Chaturvedi | INC | 66,810 | 51.93% |
| 2 | Sankar Dayal Tripathi | BJP | 52,677 | 40.94% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 2,455 | 1.91% |
| 3 | Shivwaran Ji | Independent | 1,160 | 0.90% |
| 4 | Ritesh Pripathi | Independent | 1,137 | 0.88% |
| 5 | Mahesh Sahu | ABHM | 1,048 | 0.81% |
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| 6 | Devman Singh | Independent | 1,010 | 0.79% |
| 7 | Prabhat Kumari Singh | Independent | 837 | 0.65% |
| 8 | Ainadh Vihari Mishra | Independent | 396 | 0.31% |
| 9 | Dinesh Kushwaha | Independent | 368 | 0.29% |
| 10 | Radha | Independent | 318 | 0.25% |
| 11 | Raza Hussain | Independent | 233 | 0.18% |
| 12 | Mahedra Kumar Mishra | Independent | 209 | 0.16% |
Chitrakoot result 2018
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neelanshu Chaturvedi | INC | 58,465 | 40.90% |
| 2 | Surendra Singh Gaharwar | BJP | 48,267 | 33.77% |
| 3 | Ravendra Singh Patwari | BSP | 24,010 | 16.80% |
| 4 | Brijesh Pratap Singh | Independent | 1,791 | 1.25% |
| 5 | Abhay Lal Yadav | Independent | 1,339 | 0.94% |
| 6 | Ajay Urf Golu Garg Baraundha | Independent | 1,098 | 0.77% |
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| 7 | Awadh Bihari Mishra | Independent | 1,064 | 0.74% |
| 8 | Bhai Pushpraj Kushawaha | JANADIP | 887 | 0.62% |
| 9 | Rajkumari Mishra (moti Lal Mishra ) | Independent | 881 | 0.62% |
| 10 | Rajaram Singh Gond | AIFB | 832 | 0.58% |
| 11 | Vidhya Shankar | SPAKP | 511 | 0.36% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 449 | 0.31% |
| 12 | Ramdeen Satnami | Independent | 443 | 0.31% |
| 13 | Vishwanath Gupta | SSKP | 432 | 0.30% |
| 14 | Rama Bhaiya | RMGP | 388 | 0.27% |
| 15 | Ramchandra | Independent | 385 | 0.27% |
| 16 | Rajvant Singh (raju) | AAP | 374 | 0.26% |
| 17 | Shripal Pal | Independent | 367 | 0.26% |
| 18 | Bipin Kumar Pandey | BHJMP | 365 | 0.26% |
| 19 | Raj Bahadur | PPID | 325 | 0.23% |
| 20 | Manoraj Dwivedi | JAC | 274 | 0.19% |
Chitrakoot result 2013
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prem Singh | INC | 45,913 | 36.98% |
| 2 | Surendra Singh Gaharwar | BJP | 34,943 | 28.14% |
| 3 | Teerath Prasad Kushwaha | BSP | 24,275 | 19.55% |
| 4 | Bandelal Kol | GGP | 2,614 | 2.11% |
| 5 | Awadh Bihari Mishra | Independent | 2,235 | 1.80% |
| 6 | Shanti Bhushan Pandey | NCP | 2,220 | 1.79% |
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| 7 | Lilawati Yadav Khohi | RPD | 2,148 | 1.73% |
| 8 | Akhilesh Prasad Pandey | SP | 1,659 | 1.34% |
| 9 | Suresh Kumar Mishra | SAP | 1,401 | 1.13% |
| 10 | Ripusudan Tiwari (advocate) | SAMSP | 903 | 0.73% |
| 11 | Umashankar Tripathi | Independent | 887 | 0.71% |
| 12 | Balram Chaturvedi | Independent | 808 | 0.65% |
| 13 | Shyamnarayan | AD | 639 | 0.51% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 634 | 0.51% |
| 14 | Rakesh Kumar Satnami | Independent | 539 | 0.43% |
| 15 | Bhaiyalal Urmaliya | RBCP | 504 | 0.41% |
| 16 | Foolchandra Patel | RSAD | 456 | 0.37% |
| 17 | Rabi Kumar Gupta Urf Bhaiya | Independent | 441 | 0.36% |
| 18 | Ganesh Bari | BA | 405 | 0.33% |
| 19 | Rajesh Kumar Sharama | AIFB | 308 | 0.25% |
| 20 | Dilip Kumar Sharma (lalman) | JD(S) | 231 | 0.19% |
Chitrakoot result 2008
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surendra Singh Gaharwar | BJP | 24,955 | 26.24% |
| 2 | Prem Singh | INC | 24,233 | 25.48% |
| 3 | Ranjan Vajpayee | BSP | 18,534 | 19.49% |
| 4 | Badri Patel | RSMD | 5,711 | 6.01% |
| 5 | Ramroop Patel | BJSH | 3,215 | 3.38% |
| 6 | Anand Chaubey | Independent | 2,212 | 2.33% |
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| 7 | Chandan Singh | SP | 1,994 | 2.10% |
| 8 | Advocate Ganesh Sen (hiroundi) | GGP | 1,943 | 2.04% |
| 9 | Bhagawat Prasad Tripathi | Independent | 1,681 | 1.77% |
| 10 | Hardev Singh Maravi | GMS | 1,579 | 1.66% |
| 11 | Avadha Bihari Mishra | Independent | 1,310 | 1.38% |
| 12 | Dadulal "saral" | Independent | 1,222 | 1.28% |
| 13 | Rajvant Singh "raju" | RJD | 1,073 | 1.13% |
| 14 | Savitri Pandey | Independent | 941 | 0.99% |
| 15 | Suresh Kumar Mishra | SAP | 795 | 0.84% |
| 16 | Bhai Ashok Kumar Kushwaha | IJP | 717 | 0.75% |
| 17 | Anil Dwivedi | Independent | 682 | 0.72% |
| 18 | Kasturi Bai Sen | LJP | 648 | 0.68% |
| 19 | Satya Prakash Tripathi | Independent | 591 | 0.62% |
| 20 | Ramkishor Alias Buddhu Pandey | Independent | 549 | 0.58% |
| 21 | Usha Devi Verma | AD | 516 | 0.54% |
Chitrakoot outlined in orange among the other Madhya Pradesh seats, coloured by the party that won each in 2023. Click any seat to open its page.
Other seats in Satna district
Boundaries are approximate (DataMeet, from ECI polling-station maps) and are for orientation only.
Chitrakoot is one of the assembly segments of Satna. These are the EVM votes counted in this segment for the leading Satna candidates.
- Ganesh SinghBJP54,323 43.2%
- Dabbu Siddharth Sukhlal KushwahaINC48,159 38.3%
- Narayan TripathiBSP17,924 14.3%
- Durgesh Kumar VishwakarmaIndependent970 0.8%
- Chhedi Lal Prajapati (panda Baba)Independent637 0.5%
In the assembly election BJP won this seat. In the Lok Sabha vote, BJP led here by 6,164 EVM votes.
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Answers use the official Election Commission of India results for Chitrakoot.
Who won the Chitrakoot assembly seat in 2023?
Surendra Singh Gaharwar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won Chitrakoot in the 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly election with 58,009 votes, which was 37.27% of the valid votes polled.
What was the victory margin in Chitrakoot?
The margin was 6,670 votes (4.29% of valid votes). The runner-up was Neelanshu of the Indian National Congress with 51,339 votes.
What was the voter turnout in Chitrakoot in 2023?
Turnout was 72.18%: 1,58,018 of 2,18,918 registered electors voted, across 257 polling stations. That is 0.4 points higher than in 2018.
Which Lok Sabha constituency is Chitrakoot part of?
Chitrakoot is an assembly segment of the Satna Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Ganesh Singh got the most EVM votes in this segment.
Has Chitrakoot had a bye-election?
Yes. In the bye-election on 11 Sept 2017, Neelanshu Chaturvedi (Indian National Congress) won by 14,133 votes.
Is Chitrakoot a reserved constituency?
No. Chitrakoot is a general (unreserved) seat, so any eligible candidate can contest.
When is the next assembly election in Chitrakoot?
The Madhya Pradesh assembly elected in 2023 completes its five-year term in 2028, so the next general election is due by then unless the assembly is dissolved early. The Election Commission of India announces the exact schedule.
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections of 2023 and 2018 and 2013 and 2008 (2023 report) — detailed results and constituency data summary. Lok Sabha figures: ECI 2024 report 34, assembly segment details. Vote share is of valid votes including NOTA. Party names as listed by ECI. Candidate names are shown as filed; spelling follows ECI.
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