Baroda (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Vadodara Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Baroda Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 26 Lok Sabha
(parliamentary) constituencies in Gujarat state in western India
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(legislative assembly) segments. These are:
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
(parliamentary) constituencies in Gujarat state in western India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Assembly segments
Presently, Vadodara Lok Sabha constituency comprises seven Vidhan SabhaVidhan Sabha
The Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...
(legislative assembly) segments. These are:
- Savli
- Vaghodia
- Vadodara City
- Sayajigunj
- Akota
- Raopura
- Manjalpur
Members of Parliament
- 1957: Fatehsinghrao GaekwadFatehsinghrao GaekwadLieutenant-Colonel Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Shrimant Maharaja Fatehsinghrao Prataprao Gaekwad, Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda was a former Maharaja of Baroda....
, Indian National CongressIndian National CongressThe Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian... - 1962: Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, Indian National Congress
- 1967: Pashabhai Patel, Swatantra PartySwatantra PartyThe Swatantra Party was a classical liberal political party in India founded by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and N. G. Ranga in August 1959. The party opposed the Nehruvian socialist outlook of the Congress Party by advocating free enterprise and free trade, and opposing the licence-permit Raj...
- 1971: Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, Indian National Congress
- 1977: Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, Indian National Congress
- 1980: Ranjitsinh GaekwadRanjitsinh Pratapsinh GaekwadRanjitsinghrao Gaekwad, is the younger brother of Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad. After Fatehsingrao Gaekwad died in the Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay on 1 September 1988 at the age of 50, he was succeeded as Maharaja of Baroda by his younger brother, Ranjitsinghrao Gaekwad, the current Maharaja of...
, Indian National Congress - 1984: Ranjitsinh Gaekwad, Indian National Congress
- 1989: Prakash Brahmbhatt, Janata DalJanata DalJanata Dal is an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Congress, and the Jan Morcha led by V. P...
- 1991: Deepika ChikhaliaDeepika ChikhaliaDeepika Chikhalia is an Indian actress who rose to fame playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan. She met with limited success in films in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
, Bharatiya Janata PartyBharatiya Janata PartyThe Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament... - 1996: Satyajitsinh Gaekwad, Indian National Congress
- 1998: Jayaben ThakkarJayaben ThakkarJayaben Thakkar was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. She represented the Vadodara constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.-External links:*...
, Bharatiya Janata Party - 1999: Jayaben Thakkar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 2004: Jayaben Thakkar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 2009: Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla, Bharatiya Janata Party