Charkhari (Uttar Pradesh) Election Results 2022

About Charkhari Assembly Constituency

Charkhari is constituency No. 231 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. It is situated in Mahoba district and comes under Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Charkhari has 3,13,564 registered voters. It comprises 1,72,108 male and 1,41,452 female registered voters besides four more in the Others category.

In the last assembly elections held in 2012, senior BJP leader Uma Bharti defeated her Samajwadi Party rival Kaptan Singh by a formidable margin of 25,265 votes. While Uma Bharti bagged 66,888 votes, SP candidate Kaptan Singh, who was her nearest contender, got 41,623. The voter turnout was 61.43 %.

About Charkhari Assembly (Vidha Sabha) Constituency – Bye Elections 2014

The by-polls of the Charkhari assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh have been scheduled to be held on September 13, 2014. The Vidhan Sabha seat fell vacant because the sitting MLA Uma Bharti from BJP won the 2014 Lok Sabha general elections 2014 from the Jhansi constituency. In these 2014 by-polls Geeta Singh from BJP, Ramjivan Dada from Congress and Shabbir Ahmad Valmiki from Samajwadi Party will contest the election for the Charkhari MLA seat. The Bahujan Samaj Party has opted out of the by-polls stating its principles of not contesting by-polls. This time the stakes are high on BJP and SP since BJP swept the entire nation in the recent Lok Sabha elections and SP because is the ruling party in the state.

The Assembly Election in the constituency were last held in 2012 and BJP’s Uma Bharti had won the Vidhan Sabha seat after defeating Kaptan Singh of SP.

Charkhari, which has over 3 lakh electors is a different constituency since except for Congress which was in power from 1977 to 1989, none of the other parties have been able to come to power in this constituency year after year. Every election held since 1989 witnessed a victory of a different party.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Charkhari Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Charkhari assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2022	231	Charkhari	GEN	Brijbhushan Rajpoot	M	BJP	1,02,051	Ramjeevan Yadav	M	SP	60,170
2017	231	Charkhari	GEN	Brijbhushan Rajpoot Alias Guddu Bhaiya	M	BJP	98360	Urmila Devi	M	SP	54346
2014	Bye Poll	Charkhari	GEN	Kaptan Singh	M	SP	50805	Ramjeevan	M	INC	44203
2012	231	Charkhari	GEN	Uma Bharti	F	BJP	66888	Kaptan Singh	M	SP	41623
2007	308	Charkhari	(SC)	Anil Kumar Ahirwar	M	BSP	39330	Ambesh Kumari	F	SP	32386
2002	308	Charkhari	(SC)	Ambesh Kumari	F	SP	25061	Pushpa	F	BJP	21403
1996	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Chhote Lal	M	BJP	36245	Udai Prakash	M	BSP	25866
1993	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Udai Prakash	M	BSP	29249	Chhotey Lal	M	BJP	28372
1991	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Mihi Lal	M	INC	20716	Chhote Lal	M	BJP	18955
1989	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Kashi Prasad	M	JD	31361	Mihi Lal	M	INC	26838
1985	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Mihi Lal	M	INC	29931	Kashi Prasad	M	LKD	6792
1980	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Mohan Lal	M	INC(I)	16011	Kashi Prasad	M	JNP(SC)	10193
1977	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Mohan Lal	M	INC	15854	Thakur Das	M	IND	14296
1974	324	Charkhari	(SC)	Kashi Prasad	M	BKD	22091	Mihi Lal	M	INC	17807
1969	328	Charkhari	GEN	Chandra Narain Singh	M	BJS	16216	Rajendra Kumar	M	INC	15892
1967	328	Charkhari	GEN	J.Singh	M	IND	35054	M.Singh	M	INC	16676
1962	307	Charkhari	(SC)	Mohan Lal Ahirwar	M	INC	15078	Chhannu Lal	M	PSP	10606