Jehanabad Assembly constituency

Jehanabad Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 216 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictJehanabad
Lok Sabha constituency36 Jehanabad
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyRashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year2020

Jehanabad Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Jehanabad district and South Bihar region of Bihar. It is the part of Jahanabad (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Overview

There are 2,86,098 voters in the constituency of which 1,50,106 are male, 1,35,984 female and 8 others.[2] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Jehanabad assembly constituency is one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member[4] Party
1952 Sheobhajan Singh Socialist Party
1967 Mahabir Chaudhary Indian National Congress
1977 Ram Chander Yadav Janata Party
1980 Tara Gupta Indian National Congress
1985 Syed Asghar Hussain Indian National Congress
1990 Hari Lal Yadav[5] Independent politician
1995 Mudrika Singh Yadav Janata Dal
2000 Munni Lal Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Sachidanand Yadav
2005
2010 Abhiram Sharma Janata Dal (United)
2015 Mudrika Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2018^ Suday Yadav
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Jehanabad[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Suday Yadav 75,030 47.03 −3.84
JD(U) Krishnanandan Prasad Verma 41,128 25.78
LJP Indu Devi Kashyap 24,176 15.15
BSP Manoj Kumar Singh 3,945 2.47 +1.08
Bhartiya Sablog Party Mritunjay Kumar 2,903 1.82
Independent Sijantri Kumari 2,026 1.27
Independent Sanjay Kumar 1,822 1.14
JAP(L) Sultan Amhad 1,809 1.13 +0.09
NOTA None of the above 2,388 1.5 −2.26
Majority 33,902 21.25 +1.07
Turnout 159,548 53.47 −1.72
RJD hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Jehanabad[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Mundrika Singh Yadav 76,458 50.87
RLSP Praveen Kumar 46,137 30.69
CPI(ML)L Santosh Keshari 6,716 4.47
Independent Gopal Sharma 3,065 2.04
Independent Bajrangi Yadav 2,171 1.44
BSP Arvind Kumar Ray 2,084 1.39
SS Sanjay Kumar 1,906 1.27
Independent Manish Kumar Mishra 1,597 1.06
JAP(L) Ejaz Ahamd 1,566 1.04
NOTA None of the above 5,648 3.76
Majority 30,321 20.18
Turnout 150,314 55.19


References

  1. ^ "Jahanabad Legislative Assembly bye Elections 2018 | Jehanabad". Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Jehanabad (Jahanabad) By Election Result 2018 Live | Vidhan Sabha By Elections (Polls) Live Results". News18. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Direction regarding use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System (VVPAT) in Bihar Election". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Jahanabad Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  5. ^ "चुनाव प्रचार खत्म, 11 मार्च को अपना MLA चुनेगी जहानाबाद की जनता". hindi.news18.com. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018.