Rajnandgaon Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

The Rajnandgaon constituency covers more than one district of Chhattisgarh. Out of the eight Assembly constituencies that make up this Lok Sabha segment, two cover the Kabirdham District while six fall under the Rajnandgaon District. The Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 6) consists of 1,411,051 number of electorates in totality, of these 706,213 are males and 704,838 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests.

Apart from the assembly segments of Mohla-Manpur and Dongargarh, which are respectively reserved for the so-called marginalised sections of the society, the remaining assembly segments are reserved for none. The total number of voters in the constituency is 8,30,581 (2009 estimates). This constituency is significant as the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh, hails from the Rajnandgaon District. Rajnandgaon is the primary town of the District as well as the administrative headquarters. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy, although heavy industries in the region, such as paper-making, steel and handicrafts are flourishing. The most highly acclaimed tourist destination is the Dongargarh tehsil headquarter, which houses the world-famous temple of Bamleshwari.

Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Rajnandgaon Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Rajnandgaon parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Rajnandgaon constituency is Shri Abhishek Singh of BJP.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	6	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Abhishek Singh	M	BJP	643473	Kamleshwar Verma	M	INC	407562
2009	6	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Yadav,Shri Madhusudan	M	BJP	437721	Devwrat Singh	M	INC	321843
2007	By Polls	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Dev Wrat Singh	M	INC	345009	Leela Ram Bhojwani	M	BJP	293395
2004	11	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Pradeep Gandhi	M	BJP	314520	Devvrat Singh	M	INC	300197
1999	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Dr. Raman	M	BJP	304611	Motilal Vora	M	INC	277896
1998	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Motilal Vora	M	INC	304709	Ashok Sharma	M	BJP	252468
1996	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Ashok Sharma	M	BJP	222616	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	M	INC	163340
1991	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	M	IND	178132	Dharampal Singh Gupta	M	BJP	130722
1989	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Dharam Pal Gupta	M	BJP	249389	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	M	INC	179195
1984	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	M	INC	165891	Kishorilal Shukla	M	IND	64838
1980	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Shivendra Bahadur Singh	M	INC(I)	121747	J.P.L. Francis	M	JNP	63251
1977	22	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Madan Tiwary	M	BLD	178476	Ram Sahai Pandey	M	INC	90543
1971	19	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Ramsahai Pandey	M	INC	157256	Padmawati Devi	F	NCO	58286
1967	19	Rajnandgaon	GEN	P. Devi	F	INC	132444	P. Roy	M	CPI	46004
1962	18	Rajnandgaon	GEN	Birendra Bahadur Singh	M	INC	76012	Shyamnarayan Kashmir	M	PSP	52044

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Rajnandgaon Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Rajnandgaon parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Pandariya	Dongargarh (SC)	Khujji
Kawardha	Rajnandgaon	Mohla-Manpur (ST)
Khairagarh	Dongargaon