Sailana is one of the 230

Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, also known as the Vidhan Sabha or the Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India. Members of the legislative assembly are often directly elected to serve fiv ...

(Legislative Assembly) constituencies of

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

state in central

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. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile

Madhya Bharat Madhya Bharat, also known as Malwa Union, was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramuk ...

state. It was abolished in 1956 but again came into existence in 1961. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled tribes since its inception.

Overview

Sailana (constituency number 221) is one of the 5 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Ratlam district. This constituency covers the entire Bajna and Sailana

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

s of this district. Sailana is part of

Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled tribes. This ...

along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Ratlam Rural and Ratlam City in this district,

Alirajpur Alirajpur is a city in the Alirajpur tehsil in Alirajpur district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Alirajpur State was formerly a princely state of India, under the Bhopawar Agency in Central India. It lay in the Malwa region of Madhya ...

and

Jobat Jobat is a city and a nagar parishad municipality in Alirajpur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. History Jobat was a princely state of India, administratively under the Bhopawar Agency subdivision of the Central India Agency. ...

Alirajpur district Alirajpur District () is one of the 55 districts of Madhya Pradesh state in India. It was created from Alirajpur, Jobat and Bhabra tehsils of the former Jhabua district on 17 May 2008. It is the least literate district in India as per Census ...

and

Jhabua Jhabua is a town and a municipality in Jhabua district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Jhabua District. Recently the district has got international recognition because of its endemic hen species ...

Thandla Thandla is a town in Thandla Tehsil in Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh, India. It belongs to Indore Division. It is located 30 km north of the District headquarters of Jhabua. It is a Tehsil headquarter. Thandla was named after Bhil Sardar ...

and Petlawad in Jhabua district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

As a constituency of Madhya Bharat: * 1951: Jeta Bhagga,

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As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh: * 1962: Laxmansingh Jhitra,

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* 1967: Prabhudayal Gehlot, Indian National Congress * 1972: Prabhudayal Gehlot, Indian National Congress * 1977: Kamji Gamira,

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* 1980: Prabhudayal Gehlot,

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* 1985: Prabhudayal Gehlot, Indian National Congress * 1990: Kamji Gamira,

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* 1993: Lahling Devra, Indian National Congress * 1998: Prabhudayal Gehlot,

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* 2003: Prabhudayal Gehlot, Indian National Congress * 2008: Prabhudayal Gehlot, Indian National Congress *

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: Sangeeta Charel,

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Election results

2023

2018

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