| Raigarh | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 16 for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | Central India |
| State | Chhattisgarh |
| District | Raigarh |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Raigarh |
| Established | 1961 |
| Total electors | 257,432 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 6th Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2023 |
Raigarh is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. It is in Raigarh district. The seat used to be part of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly when Chhattisgarh was part of MP.
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |||
| 1962 | Niranjan Lal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | R. K. L. Agarwal | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1972 | Ram Kumar Agrawal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | |||
| 1980 | Krishna Kumar | ||
| 1985 | |||
| 1990 | |||
| 1993 | |||
| 1998 | |||
| Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |||
| 2003 | Vijay Agrawal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2008 | S. Nayak | Indian National Congress | |
| 2013 | Roshan Lal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2018 | Prakash Naik | Indian National Congress | |
| 2023 | O. P. Choudhary | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | O. P. Choudhary | 129,134 | 63.21 | +34.76 | |
| INC | Prakash Shakrajeet Naik | 64,691 | 31.66 | −4.40 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 758 | 0.37 | −0.79 | |
| Majority | 64,443 | 31.55 | +23.94 | ||
| Turnout | 2,04,308 | ||||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Prakash Shakrajeet Naik | 69,062 | 36.06 | ||
| BJP | Roshanlal Agarwal | 54,482 | 28.45 | ||
| Independent | Vijay Agrawal | 42,914 | 22.41 | ||
| Independent | Ravishankar Patel | 7,823 | 4.08 | ||
| JCC | Vibhas Singh Thakur | 5,823 | 3.04 | ||
| BTP | Birsingh Nagesh | 2,114 | 1.10 | ||
| Independent | Mukund Gupta | 1,918 | 1.00 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,215 | 1.16 | ||
| Majority | 14,580 | 7.61 | |||
| Turnout | 1,91,533 | 77.11 | |||
| INC gain from BJP | Swing | ||||