Lok Sabha Elections 2019 constituency: Janjgir Champa, Chhattisgarh

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kamla Patle is the current member of Parliament from Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir.

Kamla Patle won the seat reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates in the 2014 Lok Sabha election after defeating Congress’ Prem Chand Jayasi. She was the winner in the 2009 general election as well.

State: Chhattisgarh

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Janjgir Champa

Sitting MP, Party: Kamla Patle, BJP

Winning margin in 2014: 174,961

Runner up name, party: Prem Chand Jayasi, Congress

Number of voters in 2014: 1,073,347

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 61.77%

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,983

Number of women voters: 847,093

First Published: Mar 17, 2019 15:21 IST