Chachoura Vidhan Sabha constituency (formerly, Chachaura) is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha

Vidhan 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) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

 state in central India

India

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. This constituency came in to existence in 1951, as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat , also known as Malwa Union was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jivaji Rao Scindia as its Rajpramukh...

 state.

Overview

Chachoura (constituency number 30) is one of the 4 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Guna district

Guna District

Guna district is one of the 50 districts of Madhya Pradesh in central India. Its administrative headquarters is Guna. The district has a population of 12,40,938...

. This constituency covers the entire Kumbhraj and Chachoura tehsil

Tehsil

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s and part of Raghogarh tehsil.

Chachoura is part of Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency

Rajgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)

Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency covers the entire Rajgarh district and parts of Guna and Shajapur districts.-Assembly segments:...

 along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Raghogarh

Raghogarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India...

 in this district, Narsinghgarh, Biaora, Rajgarh, Khilchipur and Sarangpur in Rajgarh district

Rajgarh District

Rajgarh District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Rajgarh is the administrative headquarters of the district.The district has an area of 6,154 km², and a population 992,315...

 and Susner in Shajapur district

Shajapur District

Shajapur District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India. The town of Shajapur is the district headquarters.Shajapur District is part of the Malwa Plateau. The district is situated in the northwestern part of the state and lies between latitudes 32"06' and 24" 19' North and...

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Members of Legislative Assembly

As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:

• 1951: Dwarkadas Ramnarayan, Hindu Mahasabha

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:

• 1957: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress
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• 1962: Prabhu Lal, Independent
  Independent (politician)
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• 1967: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Swatantra Party
  Swatantra Party
  The 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...
  
  
• 1972: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
  Bharatiya Jana Sangh
  The Bharatiya Jana Sangh existed from 1951 to 1980, whereupon it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's largest political parties...
  
  
• 1977: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Janata Party
  Janata Party
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• 1980: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress (I)
• 1985: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress
• 1990: Ram Bahadur Singh Parihar, Bharatiya Janata Party
  Bharatiya Janata Party
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• 1993: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
• 1998: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
• 2003: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
• 2008: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress