By-elections for twenty eight state assembly constituencies were held in Madhya Pradesh on 3 November 2020.

This resulted in the toppling of the Kamal Nath ministry and the ascendancy of Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government.

By 23 July 2020, another 3 Congress MLAs (Pradyuman Singh Lodhi (of Malhara), Sumitra Devi Kasdekar (of Nepanagar) and Narayan Patel (of Mandhata)) had resigned to join the BJP.

[6] In addition, 3 seats (Joura,[7] Agar[6] and Biaora[8]) became vacant due to the deaths of their respective sitting MLAs.

The elections were scheduled to be held on or before September 2020,[2] but got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.