Kota North (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)

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 belongs to Indian National Congress candidate Shanti Dhariwal who won in last Assembly election of 2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election by defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Prahlad Gunjal by a margin of 17,945 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[]

Election Results[]

2018 results[]

2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shanti Dhariwal	94,728	53.36	14.18
	BJP	Prahlad Gunjal	76,783	43.25	4.96
	WPOI	Naeem Azad	771	0.43	0.43
	Independent	Raj Surya Kumar Bhatt	761	0.43	0.43
	BSP	Rajendra Suman	732	0.41	0.27
	AAP	Mohammad Hussain	568	0.32	0.32
		Remaining 5 Candidates	835	0.47
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,363	1.33	0.11
Majority			17,945	10.11	1.08
Turnout			1,77,541	74.39	1.61
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	5.15

2013 results[]

2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election: Kota North^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prahlad Gunjal	79,295	48.21
	INC	Shanti Dhariwal	64105	39.18
	SDPI	Mohammad Shafi	13,544	8.24
	BSP	Nathu Lal Sharma	1,115	0.68
	Jago Party	Komal Swaroop Bhatnagar	1,041	0.63
		Remaining 5 Candidates	3,041	1.86
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,002	1.22
Majority			14,861	9.03
Turnout			1,64,473	76
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

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