Chhattisgarh BJP & Congress Candidates Full List 2023: Chhattisgarh is all set to go to polls in two phases on November 7 and 17, and votes will be counted on December 3. The Congress has released all the names for its 90 Assembly Constituencies. The party had released three lists for the upcoming Chhattisgarh Elections 2023. The first list was released on October 15, which comprised the names of 30 candidates. Congress fielded Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Patan and Deputy Chief Minister TS Singh Deo from Ambikapur. Congress gave ticket to Girish Devangan in Rajnandgaon, where he will contest BJP leader and former state chief minister Raman Singh. Of the 90 seats, the party has given tickets to 14 women. Of the 90 candidates from Congress, 33 are from ST, 29 from OBC, 10 from SC and 15 from general categories, while three are minorities. The Congress released its second list on October 18, which had names of 53 candidates. The third list was released on October 22, which had the names of seven candidates. With the third list, the party announced its candidates for all the 90 assembly constituencies in the state. 

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The BJP has released four lists for the upcoming Chhattisgarh Elections 2023. The BJP on October 25 released its fourth list of candidates for the remaining four seats for the polls. With this, the Chhattisgarh BJP has announced its candidates for all the 90 assembly constituencies in the state.

Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Full list of BJP and Congress constituencies and candidates

  1. Ambikapur – Tribhuvaneshwar Saran Singh Deo (Congress) vs Rajesh Agarwal (BJP)
  2. Sitapur – ST – Amarjeet Bhagat (Congress) vs Ram Kumar Toppo (BJP)
  3. Kharsia – Umesh Patel (Congress) vs Mahesh Sahu (BJP)
  4. Korba – Jai Singh Agarwal (Congress) vs Lakhanlal Dewangan (BJP)
  5. Sakti – Dr. Charan Das Mahant (Congress) vs Khilavan Sahu (BJP)
  6. Arang – SC – Dr. Shivkumar Dahariya (Congress) vs Khushwant Singh (BJP)
  7. Dondi Lohara – ST – Anila Bhendia (Congress) vs Devlal Halwa Thakur (BJP)
  8. Patan – Bhupesh Baghel (Congress) vs Vijay Baghel, MP (BJP)
  9. Durg-Rural – Tamradhwaj Sahu (Congress) vs
  10. Saja – Ravindra Choubey (Congress) vs Ishwar Sahu (BJP)
  11. Nawagarh – SC – Guru Rudra Kumar (Congress) vs Dayaldaas Baghel (BJP)
  12. Pandariya – Neelkanth Chandrawanshi (Congress) vs Bhavna Bohra (BJP)
  13. Kawardha – Mohd Akbar (Congress) vs Vijay Sharma (BJP)
  14. Khairagarh – Yashoda Verma (Congress) vs Vikrant Singh (BJP)
  15. Dongargarh – SC – Harshita Swami Baghel (Congress) vs Vinod Khandekar (BJP)
  16. Rajnandgaon – Girish Devangan (Congress) vs Dr Raman Singh (BJP)
  17. Dongargaon – Daleshwar Sahu (Congress) vs Bharat Lal Verma (BJP)
  18. Khujji – Bhola Ram Sahu (Congress) vs Geeta Ghasi Sahu (BJP)
  19. Mohla-Manpur – ST – Indrashah Mandavi (Congress) vs Sanjeev Saha (BJP)
  20. Antagarh – ST – Roop Singh Potai (Congress) vs Vikram Usendi (BJP)
  21. Bhanupratappur – ST – Savitri Mandavi (Congress) vs Gautam Uikey (BJP)
  22. Kanker – ST – Shankar Dhruv (Congress) vs Asharam Netam (BJP)
  23. Keshkal – ST – Sant Ram Netam (Congress) vs Neelkanth Tekam (Ex IAS) (BJP)
  24. Kondagaon – ST – Mohan Lal Markam (Congress) vs Sushree Lata Usendi (BJP)
  25. Narayanpur – ST – Chandan Kashyap (Congress) vs Kedar Kashyap (BJP)
  26. Bastar – ST – Lakheshwar Baghel (Congress) vs Maniram Kashyap (BJP)
  27. Chitrakot – ST – Deepak Baij (Congress) vs Vinayak Goyal (BJP)
  28. Dantewada ST – K Chavindra Mahendra Karma (Congress) vs Chetaram Arami (BJP)
  29. Bijapur – ST – Vikram Mandavi (Congress) vs Mahesh Gagada (BJP)
  30. Konta – ST – Kawasi Lakhma (Congress) vs Soyam Muka (BJP)
  31. Bharatpur-Sonhat-ST – Gulab Singh Kamro (Congress) vs Renuka Singh, MP (BJP)
  32. Manendragarh – Ramesh Singh (Congress) vs Shyam Bihari Jaiswal (BJP)
  33. Premnagar – Khelsai Singh (Congress) vs Bhulan Singh Maravi (BJP)
  34. Bhatgaon – Paras Nath Rajwade (Congress) vs Laxmi Rajwade (BJP)
  35. Pratappur-ST – Rajkumari Marawi (Congress) vs Shakuntala Singh Porthe (BJP)
  36. Ramanuganj-ST – Dr. Ajay Tirkey (Congress) vs Ramvichar Netam (BJP)
  37. Samri-ST – Vijay Pakara (Congress) vs Udheshwari Paikra (BJP)
  38. Lundra-ST – Dr. Pritam Ram (Congress) vs Praboj Bhin (BJP)
  39. Jashpur- ST – Vinay Kumar Bhagat (Congress) vs Raimuni Bhagat (BJP)
  40. Kunkuri-ST – U. D. Minj (Congress) vs Vishnu Dev Sai (BJP)
  41. Pathalgaon-ST – Rampukar Singh (Congress) vs Gomti Sai, MP (BJP)
  42. Lailunga – ST – Vidyavali Sidar (Congress) vs Suniti Satyanand Rathiya (BJP)
  43. Raigarh – Prakash Shakrajeet Naik (Congress) vs O.P. Chaudhary, (Former IAS) (BJP)
  44. Sarangarh-SC – Uttari Jangde (Congress) vs Shivkumari Chauhan (BJP)
  45. Dharamjaigarh-ST – Laljeet Singh Rathiya (Congress) vs Harishchandra Rathia (BJP)
  46. Rampur-ST – Phool Singh Rathiya (Congress) vs Nankiram Kanwar (BJP)
  47. Katghora – Purshottam Kanwar (Congress) vs Premchandra Patel (BJP)
  48. Pali-Tanakhar ST – Duleshwari Sidar (Congress) vs Ramdayal Uikey (BJP)
  49. Marwahi-ST – Dr. K.K. Dhruv (Congress) vs Pranav Kumar Marpachhi (BJP)
  50. Kota – Atal Srivastav (Congress) vs Prabal Pratap Singh Judev (BJP)
  51. Lormi – Thaneshwar Sahu (Congress) vs Arun Sao, MP (BJP)
  52. Mungeli-SC – Sanjit Banerjee (Congress) vs Punnulal Mohale (BJP)
  53. Takhatpur – Dr. Rashmi Ashish Singh (Congress) vs Dharamjeet Singh (BJP)
  54. Bilha – Siyaram Kaushik (Congress) vs Dharamlal Kaushik (BJP)
  55. Bilaspur – Shailesh Pandey (Congress) vs Amar Agarwal (BJP)
  56. Beltara – Vijay Kesarwani (Congress) vs Sushant Shukla (BJP)
  57. Masturi-SC – Dilip Lahariya (Congress) vs Krishnamurthy Bandi (BJP)
  58. Akaltara – Raghvendra Singh (Congress) vs Saurabh Singh (BJP)
  59. Janjgir-Champa – Vyas Kashyap (Congress) vs Narayan Prasad Chandel (BJP)
  60. Chandrapur – Ram Kumar Yadav (Congress) vs Bahu Rani Sanyogita Singh Judev (BJP)
  61. Jaijaipur – Baleshwar Sahu (Congress) vs Krishnakant Chandra (BJP)
  62. Pamgarh-SC – Sheshraj Harbans (Congress) vs Santosh Lahare (BJP)
  63. Basna – Devender Bahadur Singh (Congress) vs Sampat Agarwal (BJP)
  64. Khallari – Dwarkadhish Yadav (Congress) vs Alka Chandrakar (BJP)
  65. Bilaigarh-SC – Ms. Kavita Pran Lahare (Congress) vs Dr Dineshlal Jagade (BJP)
  66. Baloda Bazar – Shailesh Trivedi (Congress) vs Tankaram Verma (BJP)
  67. Bhatapara – Inder Kumar Sao (Congress) vs Shivratan Sharma (BJP)
  68. Dharsiwa – Chhaya Verma (Congress) vs Anuj Sharma (BJP)
  69. Raipur Rural – Pankaj Sharma (Congress) vs Motilal Sahu (BJP)
  70. Raipur City West – Vikas Upadhyay (Congress) vs Rajesh Munat (BJP)
  71. Raipur City South – Mahant Ram Sundar Das (Congress) vs Brijmohan Agarwal (BJP)
  72. Abhanpur – Dhanendra Sahu (Congress) vs Indrakumar Sahu (BJP)
  73. Rajim – Amitesh Shukla (Congress) vs Rohit Sahu (BJP)
  74. Bindranawargarh-ST – Janak Lal Dhruv (Congress) vs Govardhan Ram Manjhi (BJP)
  75. Kurud – Tarini Chandrakar (Congress) vs Ajay Chandrakar (BJP)
  76. Sanjari Balod – Sangeeta Sinha (Congress) vs Rakesh Yadav (BJP)
  77. Gunderdehi – Kunwar Singh Nishad (Congress) vs Virendra Kumar Yadav (BJP)
  78. Durg City – Arun Vora (Congress) vs Gajendra Yadav (BJP)
  79. Bhilai Nagar – Devendra Yadav (Congress) vs Premprakash Pandey (BJP)
  80. Vaishali Nagar – Mukesh Chandrakar (Congress) vs Shri Rikesh Sen (BJP)
  81. Ahiwara SC – Nirmal Kosare (Congress) vs Doman Lal Korsevada (BJP)
  82. Bemetara – Ashish Kumar Chhabra (Congress) vs Dipesh Sahu (BJP)
  83. Jagdalpur – Jitin Jaiswal (Congress) vs Kiran Singh Deo (BJP)
  84. Baikunthpur – Ambica Singh Deo (Congress) vs Bhaiyyalal Rajwade (BJP)
  85. Saraipali – SC – Chaturi Nand (Congress) vs Sarla Kosaria (BJP)
  86. Mahasamund – Dr. Rashmi Chandrakar (Congress) vs Yogeshwar Raju Sinha (BJP)
  87. Kasdol – Sandeep Sahu (Congress) vs Dhaniram Dhivar (BJP)
  88. Raipur City North – Kuldeep Juneja (Congress) vs Purandar Mishra (BJP)
  89. Sihawa – ST – Ambika Markam (Congress) vs Shrawan Markam (BJP)
  90. Dhamtari – Omkar Sahu (Congress) vs Ranjana Dipendra Sahu (BJP)

In the 2018 Chhattisgarh elections, the Congress registered a landslide victory winning 68 seats, and comfortably formed the government, with Bhupesh Baghel being sworn-in as the CM. The BJP was reduced to 15 seats, while the JCC (J) and the BSP bagged 5 and 2 seats, respectively. The current strength of the Congress is 71