Kota North Assembly constituency

Kota North
Constituency No. 189 for the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateRajasthan
DistrictKota
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyIndian National Congress
Elected year2023

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

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

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

2023

2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North
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 Decrease8.86

2018

2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North
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 Increase10.15

2013

2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North[2]
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 Increase9.03


2008

2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North[2]
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

  1. ^ "Kota north (Rajasthan) Assembly Constituency Elections". www.elections.in. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Kota North Assembly Constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2020.

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