Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2023: Bharatpur-Sonhat is one of the important constituencies among the 90 assembly seats in Chhattisgarh. It serves as a Vidhan Sabha constituency within the Koriya (ST) Lok Sabha constituency. Typically characterised as a rural constituency, this Assembly seat is located in the North region of the Koria district. Recently, the Election Commission (EC) has announced the schedule for the Chhattisgarh assembly election, scheduling the state’s polls in two phases: the first on November 7th and the second on November 17th, with vote counting set for December 3 this year.
It’s worth noting that the current government in the state is led by the Congress party, with Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel at the helm. The party secured a majority of 68 seats out of the 90-member assembly in the 2018 Legislative Assembly Elections.
For this year assembly elections, Congress has fielded Gulab Kamro and Renuka Singh will contest for BJP from this seat.
In the 2018 Bharatpur-Sonhat election, Gulab Kamro of the Congress emerged victorious, securing the seat with a lead of 16,533 votes over Champadevi Pawle of the BJP. Champadevi Pawle garnered more than 35,199 votes, while Gulab Kamro of the Congress secured over 51,732 votes, with a voting percentage of 39 percent.
The total electorate for the Bharatpur-Sonhat constituency includes 158,649 eligible voters, out of which 79,214 are male voters and 79,431 are female voters, as reported by the Election Commission in 2018.
