Kolaras Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh

Kolaras
Constituency No. 27 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Shivpuri
LS constituency	Guna
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Virendra Raghuwanshi
Party	BJP

Kolaras Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as Shivpuri Kolaras, one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.^[2] This constituency was reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes from 1976 to 2008.

Overview

Kolaras (constituency number 27) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Shivpuri district. This constituency covers the entire Kolaras tehsil of the district.^[3]

Kolaras is part of Guna Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Pichhore and Shivpuri in this district, Bamori and Guna in Guna district and Ashok Nagar, Chanderi and Mungaoli in Ashoknagar district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Shivpuri Kolaras constituency of Madhya Bharat

1951: Tula Ram, Indian National Congress / Narhari Prashad, Indian National Congress^[2]

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh

1957: Vedehi Charan, Indian National Congress
1962: Manorama, Indian National Congress
1967: Jagadish Prasad Verma, Swatantra Party
1972: Jagadish Prasad Verma, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977: Kamta Prasad, Janata Party
1980: Pooran Singh Bedia, Indian National Congress (I)
1985: Pooran Singh Bedia, Indian National Congress
1990: Om Prakash Khatik, Bharatiya Janata Party
1993: Om Prakash Khatik, Bharatiya Janata Party
1998: Pooran Singh Bedia, Indian National Congress
2003: Om Prakash Khatik, Bharatiya Janata Party
2008: Devendra Kumar Jain, Bharatiya Janata Party
2013: Ram Singh Yadav, Indian National Congress^[4]
2018 (bypoll): Mahendra Singh Yadav

Year	Member	Party
2018	Virendra Raghuwanshi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Mahendra Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress

Election results

2018

2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kolaras^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	BJP	Virendra Raghuwanshi
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP gain from		Swing

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Bharat" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 228, 250.
^ "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.