Kota North Assembly constituency
| Kota North | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 189 for the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Rajasthan |
| District | Kota |
| Established | 1957 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Elected year | 2023 |
Kota North is a constituency of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly covering the Kota Municipal Corporation in the Kota district of Rajasthan, India.[1]
Kota North is one of eight assembly constituencies in the Kota (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 189 amongst 200 constituencies.
Currently this seat is represented by Indian National Congress candidate Shanti Dhariwal who won in last Assembly election of 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election by defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Prahlad Gunjal by a margin of 2,486 votes.[2]
Geographical scope
[edit]The constituency comprises parts of Tehsil Ladpura (Partly), Kota Municipal Corporation (Partly)- Ward no. 1, 2, 12 to 32 and 49 to 52.[3]
Member of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Rameshwar Dayal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Krishan Kumar | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1967 | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | ||
| 1972 | Bhuwnesh Chaturvedi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Bharatiya Janta Party | ||
| 1985 | |||
| 1990 | |||
| 1993 | |||
| 1998 | Shanti Dhariwal | Indian National Congress | |
| 2003 | Om Birla | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2008 | Shanti Dhariwal | Indian National Congress | |
| 2013 | Prahlad Gunjal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2018 | Shanti Dhariwal | Indian National Congress | |
| 2023 | |||
Election results
[edit]2023
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Shanti Kumar Dhariwal | 94,899 | 49.50% | −3.46% | |
| BJP | Prahlad Gunjal | 92,413 | 48.21% | +5.00% | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,594 | 0.83% | −0.50% | |
| WPOI | Saifullah | 860 | 0.45% | +0.02% | |
| BSP | Bhim Singh Kuntal | 1,594 | 0.83% | +0.01% | |
| RRP | Tarun | 463 | 0.24% | N/A | |
| Independent | Yogesh Kumar Sharma | 420 | 0.20% | N/A | |
| Independent | Sohan Lal | 244 | 0.13% | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,486 | 1.29% | −8.86% | ||
| Turnout | 1,91,704 | 74.96% | +0.57% | ||
| INC hold | Swing |  8.86
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2018
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Shanti Kumar Dhariwal | 94,728 | 53.36% | +14.18% | |
| BJP | Prahlad Gunjal | 76,783 | 43.21% | −5.00% | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,363 | 1.33% | +0.11% | |
| WPOI | Naeem Azad | 0 | -0.43% | N/A | |
| Independent | Raj Suryakumar Bhatt | 761 | 0.43% | N/A | |
| BSP | Rajendra Suman | 729 | 0.41% | −0.27% | |
| AAP | Mohammad Hussain | 0 | -0.00% | −0.1% | |
| Majority | 17,855 | 10.15% | +1.12% | ||
| Turnout | 1,77,541 | 74.39% | −1.61% | ||
| INC gain from BJP | Swing |  10.15
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2013
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Prahlad Gunjal | 79,295 | 48.21% | +10.40% | |
| INC | Shanti Kumar Dhariwal | 64,434 | 39.18% | −16.38% | |
| SDPI | Mohammad Shafi | 13,545 | 8.34% | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,002 | 1.22% | +1.22% | |
| BSP | Nathu Lal Sharma | 1,115 | 0.68% | −1.01% | |
| Jago Party | Komal Swaroop Bhatnagar | 1,041 | 0.63% | N/A | |
| NPP | Atul Srivastava | 967 | 0.59% | N/A | |
| RJVP | Mohammad Salim | 328 | 0.20% | N/A | |
| Majority | 14,861 | 9.03% | −8.03% | ||
| Turnout | 1,64,473 | 76.00% | +15.60% | ||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | 9.03
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2008
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Shanti Kumar Dhariwal | 68,560 | 55.56 | ||
| BJP | Suman Shringi | 46,829 | 37.81 | ||
| BSP | Mohammad Irshad | 2,099 | 1.69 | ||
| SP | Ashfaq Hussain | 912 | 0.74 | ||
| IJP | Abdul Wahid | 511 | 0.41 | ||
| Majority | 21,371 | 17.75 | |||
| Turnout | 123,855 | 60.40 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Kota north (Rajasthan) Assembly Constituency Elections". www.elections.in. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Kota North Assembly Constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2020.