Gwalior (Lok Sabha constituency)

Gwalior
Gwalior
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency within Madhya Pradesh
Incumbent	Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952
Reservation	None
State	Madhya Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Gwalior Rural ; Gwalior ; Gwalior East ; Gwalior South ; Bhitarwar ; Dabra ; Karera ; Pohari

Gwalior Lok Sabha seat is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh state. This constituency covers the entire Gwalior district and part of Shivpuri district.

Vidhan Sabha segments[]

Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency currently comprises the following eight Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) segments:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2009)^[1]
14	Gwalior Rural	None	Gwalior	165,543
15	Gwalior	None	Gwalior	208,294
16	Gwalior East	None	Gwalior	202,849
17	Gwalior South	None	Gwalior	184,465
18	Bhitarwar	None	Gwalior	172,171
19	Dabra	SC	Gwalior	159,077
23	Karera	SC	Shivpuri	169,759
24	Pohari	None	Shivpuri	158,217
Total:				1,420,375

Members of Lok Sabha[]

Year	Winner
Madhya Bharat State
1952	Vishnu Ghanashyam Deshpande	Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
1952*	Narayan Bhaskar Khare	Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
Madhya Pradesh State
1957	Suraj Prasad	Indian National Congress
1962	Vijaya Raje Scindia	Indian National Congress
1967	Ram Awtar Sharma	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1971	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Narayan Shejwalkar	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Narayan Shejwalkar	Janata Party
1984	Madhavrao Scindia	Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996		Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress
1998		Indian National Congress
1999	Jaibhan Singh Pavaiya	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Ramsevak Singh (Expelled for taking bribe)^[2]	Indian National Congress
2007 *	Yashodhara Raje Scindia	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Yashodhara Raje Scindia
2014	Narendra Singh Tomar
2019	Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar

*By Election

Election results[]

2019 Lok Sabha Election[]

2019 Indian general elections: Gwalior
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar	6,27,250	52.44
	INC	Ashok Singh	4,80,408	40.16
	BSP	Mamta Singh Kushwaha	44,677	3.74
	IND.	Govind Singh	6,320	0.53
		Geeta Rani Kushwah	5,566	0.47
Majority			1,46,842	12.28
Turnout			11,96,888	59.82	+7.02
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 Lok Sabha Election[]

2014 Indian general elections: Gwalior
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Singh Tomar	4,42,796	44.68	+1.39
	INC	Ashok Singh	4,13,097	41.68	+3.04
	BSP	Alok Sharma	68,196	6.88	-6.21
	AAP	Neelam Agrwal	11,510	1.16	N/A
	CPI(M)	Akhilesh Yadav	10,297	1.04	N/A
	SP	Balwant Singh Kushwah	5,327	0.54	N/A
	Independent	Asif Khan	4,969	0.50	N/A
	Jan Nyay Dal	C.L. Karodiya	4,719	0.48	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,219	0.43
Majority			29,699	3.00
Turnout			9,90,912	52.80
	BJP hold		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Gwalior
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Yashodhara Raje Scindia	2,52,314	43.19
	INC	Ashok Singh	2,25,723	38.64
	BSP	Ajab Singh Kushwaha	76,481	13.09
	IND.	Jagadish Gobara	3,943	0.67
	LJP	Avtar Singh	3,341	0.57
Majority			26,591	4.55
Turnout			5,84,196	41.12
	BJP hold		Swing

2004 Lok Sabha Election[]

Ramsevak Singh (Congress) : 307,735 (Expelled from Lok Sabha)
Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya (BJP) : 210,063
- Ram Sevak Singh was caught taking bribe and expelled from Lok Sabha.^[3] This necessitated by-election for the seat which BJP won.

2007 bye-election[]

By Election, 2007: Gwalior
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Yashodhara Raje Scindia	2,13,583	37.43
	INC	Ashok Singh	1,77,109	31.04
		Ramshree Baghel	51,308	8.99
	BSP	Kedar Singh Bidhuri	35,707	6.26
	LJP	Phool Singh Baraiya	31,844	5.58
	SP	Munna Lal Goyal	16,829	2.95
Majority			36,474	6.39
Turnout			5,70,609	41.38
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

1984 Lok Sabha Election[]

Madhavrao Scindia (Congress) : 307,735
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP) : 132,141

Political sources claim that Scindia had told Vajpayee that he would be contesting from Guna, but changed his seat very late. The sympathy wave for Congress was so strong that Vajpayee could have lost the election in any case, but Scindia's candidacy made his defeat certain. Jana Sangh / BJP had won this seat even in the Indira waves of 1971 and 1980.^[4]

1971 Lok Sabha Election[]

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP) : 188,995
Gautam Sharma (Congress) : 118,685

1952 Lok Sabha Election[]

General Elections 1952 Vi Gha Deshpande (Hindu Mahasabha) won from both Gwalior and Guna. He retained Guna seat, and resigned from Gwalior. The by-election for Gwalior seat was won by N B Khare, also of Hindu Maha Sabha. In 1930s, Khare had been Chief Minister (called 'Premier' in those days) of Central Province as a Congress politician. But he left the party later.

References[]

^ "Parliamentary & Assembly Constituency-Wise Report of Electors in the Final Roll-2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
^ Naveen, P. (21 November 2015). "Madhya Pradesh: Son takes up cudgels for cash-for-query stung MP | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^ "BJP, BSP suspend MPs caught on camera taking bribes". rediff.com. 12 December 2005. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^ "1984 India General (8th Lok Sabha) Elections Results". www.elections.in. Retrieved 5 January 2021.

Sources[]

Election Commission of India - Report

v t Lok Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh
Current (since 2008)	Balaghat Betul Bhind Bhopal Chhindwara Damoh Dewas Dhar Guna Gwalior Hoshangabad Indore Jabalpur Khajuraho Khandwa Khargone Mandla Mandsour Morena Rajgarh Ratlam Rewa Sagar Satna Shahdol Sidhi Tikamgarh Ujjain Vidisha
Defunct	Jhabua Seoni Shajapur Shivpuri