Prithvipur Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh

Prithvipur
Constituency No. 45 for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Central India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Niwari
LS constituency	Tikamgarh
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nitendra Singh Rathore
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2023

Prithvipur Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.^[1] Initially, it came into existence in 1951 as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state,^[2] but it was abolished in 1956. This constituency again came into existence in 2008, following the delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies. Prithvipur is small town of Bundelkhand. It's a city of politics.

Overview

Prithvipur (constituency number 45) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Niwari District. This constituency covers the Prithvipur and Jeron Khalsa nagar panchayats and parts of Jatara and Prithvipur tehsils of the district.^[3]

Prithivpur is part of Tikamgarh Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Tikamgarh, Jatara, Niwari and Khargapur in this district and Maharajpur, Chhatarpur and Bijawar in Chhatarpur district.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

As from a constituency of Vindhya Pradesh:

1951: Shyam Lal, Indian National Congress^[2]

As from a constituency of Madhya Pradesh:

Year	Member
2008	Brijendra Singh Rathore	Indian National Congress
2013	Aneeta-Suneel Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018	Brijendra Singh Rathore^[4]	Indian National Congress
2021^[a]	Shishupal Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
2023	Nitendra Singh Rathore	Indian National Congress

^ by-poll

Election results

2021 Bypoll

By-election, 2021: Prithvipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shishupal Yadav	82,673	53.12	+46.11
	INC	Nitendra Singh Rathore	66,986	43.04	+8.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,741	1.12
	SP	Kushwaha Moti Lal	1,181	0.76	-29.00
Margin of victory			15,687
Turnout			1,55,796	78.47
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

References

^ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Vindhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 5.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 230, 250.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2018 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 September 2021.