In 2014 general elections, Harishchandra D. Chavan of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected from the Dindori (ST) Lok Sabha Constituency. Mr Chavan was polled 5,42,784 votes while Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)'s Dr. Bharati Pawar bagged 2,95,165 votes.
Facing a triangular contest this time, Dindori had elected a BJP MP twice - in 2009 and 2014 - and of the two reserved assembly segments, Dindori is with the NCP and Kalvan is with the CPI-M since 2014.
The tribal-dominated Dindori could pose problems for the BJP which dropped its sitting two-time MP, Harishchandra D. Chavan in favour of recent defector from NCP, Bharti P. Pawar, whom he had defeated in 2014 by a margin of 2.45 lakh votes.
She is locking horns with NCP's Dhanraj Mahale and Communist Party of India (Maxist)'s Jiva Pandu Gavit in the constituency with a total electorate of 15,30,139 including 8,08,018 men and 7.22,121 women.
Dindori, a Scheduled Tribes reserved Lok Sabha constituency, recorded 65.76 per cent votes while it went polls on April 29, during the fourth phase of general elections 2019.
The Dindori Lok Sabha constituency consists of Nandgaon, Kalvan (ST), Chandwad, Yevla, Niphad, and Dindori (ST) assembly segments from Maharashtra state Legislative Assembly.
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