Bhopal (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency presently covers the entire Bhopal district and part of Sehore district.

Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency Details

The seat has been held by the BJP since 1989. Bhopal was represented by Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma from 1971 to 1977 and 1980 to August 1984. The 17th lok Sabha election held on 12 May 2019.

Assembly Segments

Like most other Lok Sabha seats in MP and Chhattisgarh, with few seats like Durg (which has nine assembly segments under it) being exceptions, Bhopal Lok Sabha seat has 8 assembly seats as its segments.

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2019)
149	Berasia	None	Bhopal	2,16,954
150	Bhopal Uttar	None	Bhopal	2,42,436
151	Narela	None	Bhopal	3,18,323
152	Bhopal Dakshin-Paschim	None	Bhopal	2,25,874
153	Bhopal Madhya	None	Bhopal	2,42,147
154	Govindpura	None	Bhopal	3,78,252
155	Huzur	None	Bhopal	3,17,116
159	Sehore	None	Sehore	2,01,749
Total:				21,42,851

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
Madhya Bharat State
1952	Saidullah Razmi	Indian National Congress
	Chatur Narain Malviya	Indian National Congress
Madhya Pradesh State
1957	Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress
1962	Maimoona Sultan	Indian National Congress
1967	Jagannathrao Joshi	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1971	Shankar Dayal Sharma	Indian National Congress
1977	Arif Beg	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Shankar Dayal Sharma	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984	K. N. Pradhan	Indian National Congress
1989	Sushil Chandra Varma	Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	Sushil Chandra Varma	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Sushil Chandra Varma	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Sushil Chandra Varma	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Uma Bharti	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Kailash Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Alok Sanjar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Pragya Singh Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2019 Election Result

2019 Indian general elections: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur	8,66,482	61.54	-1.65
	INC	Digvijaya Singh	5,01,660	35.63	+5.24
	BSP	Madho Singh Ahirwar	11,277	0.80	+0.10
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,430	0.39	-0.06
Majority			3,64,822	25.91	-6.89
Turnout			14,08,669	65.74	+7.99
	BJP hold		Swing	-1.65

Indian General Election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Alok Sanjar	7,14,178	63.19	+12.24
	INC	P. C. Sharma	3,43,482	30.39	-10.67
	AAP	Rachna Dhingra	21,298	1.88	N/A
	BSP	Sunil Borse	10,152	0.90	-1.93
	CPI	Shailendra Kumar Shaili	7,643	0.68	"N/A"
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,181	0.46	"N/A"
Majority			3,70,696	32.80	+22.91
Turnout			11,30,182	57.75	+12.68
	BJP hold		Swing	+12.24

2009 results

2009 Indian general elections: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Kailash Chandra Joshi	3,35,678	50.95	-14.46
	INC	Surendra Singh Thakur	2,70,521	41.06	+11.29
	BSP	Ashok Narayan Singh	18,649	2.83	+0.88
	SP	Munawar Khan Kausar	8,615	1.31	+0.85
	Independent	Brajendra Chaturvedi	3,570	0.54	N/A
Majority			65,157	9.89	-25.75
Turnout			6,58,840	45.07	-1.39
	BJP hold		Swing	-14.46

2004 results

General Election, 2004: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Kailash Joshi	5,61,563	65.41
	INC	Sajid Ali	2,55,558	29.77
	BSP	G. S. Chawala	16,712	1.95
	Independent	Brij Basi Lal Sharma	7,965	0.92
	SVSP	Archana Srivastava	4,317	0.50
Majority			3,06,005	35.64
Turnout			8,58,463	46.47
	BJP hold		Swing

1999 results

General Election, 1999: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Sadhvi Uma Sri Bharti	5,37,905	55.09
	INC	Suresh Pachouri	3,69,041	37.79
	Independent	Shrawan Gourav	19,710	2.02
	BSP	Phool Singh	18,617	1.91
	NCP	Aslam Sher Khan	6,044	0.62
Majority			1,68,864	17.30
Turnout			9,76,493	61.87
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 results

General Election, 1998: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	4,94,481	57.44
	INC	Arif Baig	3,00,549	34.91
	BSP	Manoj Shrivastava	54,526	4.01
	CPI	Shailendra Kumar	15,423	1.79
Majority			1,93,932	22.53
Turnout			8,60,917	58.03
	BJP hold		Swing

1996 results

General Election, 1996: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	3,53,427	49.27
	INC	Kailash Agnihotri	2,02,533	28.24
	Independent	Ramesh Saxena	52,865	7.37
	AIIC(T)	Lalit Srivastava	46,146	6.43
	Independent	Rafiq Aslam Qureshi	8,605	1.20
Majority			1,50,894	21.03
Turnout			7,17,295	49.26
	BJP hold		Swing

1991 results

General Election, 1991: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	3,08,946	53.61
	INC	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi	2,06,738	35.88
	JD	Swami Agniwesh	26,716	4.64
Majority			1,02,208	17.73
Turnout			5,76,232	49.67
	BJP hold		Swing

1989 results

General Election, 1989: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dr. Sushil Chandra Varma	2,81,169	46.48
	INC	K. N. Pradhan	1,77,515	29.35
	BSP	A. Rauf Khan	97,886	16.18
Majority			1,03,654	17.13
Turnout			6,04,911	53.97
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

1984 results

General Election, 1984: Bhopal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	K. N. Pradhan	2,40,717	61.73
	BJP	Laxminarayan Sharma	1,12,053	28.74
	JP	Goswami Gajanan Puri	5,705	1.46
	Independent	Gulkhan Alam	4,710	1.21
	Independent	Shiv Kumar Sahni	4,386	1.12
Majority			1,28,664	32.99
Turnout			3,89,943	48.89
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Bhopal district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

External links

• Bhopal lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details