Barh Assembly constituency

Barh
Constituency No. 179 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictPatna
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata party
Elected year2020

Barh Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Munger Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies.[1] Barh is in the 14 assembly segments which fall under Patna district.[2]

Overview

Barh comprises CD Blocks Athmalgola, Belchi & Barh; Gram Panchayats Dhiwar, Parsawan, Goasa Shekhpura & Bihari Bigha of Pandarak CD Block.[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name Party
1952 Rana Sheolakh Pati Singh Indian National Congress
1957 Ramyatan Singh
1962 Rana Sheolakh Pati Singh
1967 Tarini Prasad Singh Jan Kranti Dal
1969 Rana Sheolakh Pati Singh Indian National Congress
1972 Dwarika Nath Singh
1977 Rana Sheolakh Pati Singh Janata Party
1980 Vishwa Mohan Choudhry Independent politician
1985 Bhuvneshwar Singh Indian National Congress
1990 Vijay Krishna Singh Janata Dal
1995
2000 Bhuvneshwar Singh Samata Party
2005 Lovely Anand Janata Dal (United)
2005 Gyanendra Kumar Singh
2010
2015 Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

2010 Bihar legislative assembly election: Barh[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Gyanendra Kumar Singh 49,327 32.94 −11.5
INC Satyendra Bahadur 39,087 26.1
Independent Karn Veer Singh Yadav 38,406 25.65
Independent Ranveer Kumar "Pankaj" 5,959 3.98
Independent Rana Sudhir Kumar Singh 3,328 2.22
Bhartiya Sablog Party Rahul Raj 1,778 1.19
JAP(L) Shyam Deo Prasad Singh 1,437 0.96 −1.1
Independent Raj Kumari 1,393 0.93
NOTA None of the above 1,461 0.98 −1.75
Majority 10,240 6.84 +1.04
Turnout 149,739 53.45 −1.83
BJP hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barh[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Gyanendra Kumar Singh 63,989 44.44
JD(U) Manoj Kumar 55,630 38.64
Independent Neelu Devi 3,722 2.59
Independent Sanjay Singh 3,649 2.53
CPI Chakradhar Prasad Singh 3,576 2.48
JAP(L) Shambhu Singh 2,959 2.06
Independent Dina Saw 1,583 1.1
BSP Ravindra Paswan 1,547 1.07
NOTA None of the above 3,933 2.73
Majority 8,359 5.8
Turnout 143,974 55.28


References

  1. ^ "Munger Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ^ "14 segments in Patna dist this time".
  3. ^ "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  4. ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010
  5. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018.

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