Pipra, East Champaran Assembly constituency

Pipra
Constituency No. 17 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DivisionTirhut
DistrictEast Champaran
Lok Sabha constituencyPurvi Champaran
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2020
Preceded byAwadhesh Prasad Kushwaha

Pipra Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is an open seat now but was earlier reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 17. Pipra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Mehsi, Chakia (Pipra), Tetaria community development blocks.[1]

Pipra Assembly constituency is part of 3. Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part of Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[2] Party
1957 Ganga Nath Mishra Communist Party of India
1962 Satyadeo Prasad Chaudhari Indian National Congress
1967 Bigu Ram
1969
1972 Tulsi Ram Communist Party of India
1977
1980 Nand Lal Chaudhary Indian National Congress
1985
1990 Sahdeo Paswan Janata Dal
1995
2000 Surendra Kumar Chandra Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Krishnanandan Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010 Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha Janata Dal (United)
2015 Shyambabu Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Pipra (Purvi Champaran)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyambabu Prasad Yadav 88,587 44.18 +6.18
CPI(M) Rajmangal Prasad 80,410 40.1 +35.25
Independent Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha 6,940 3.46
Independent Shyam Nandan Kumar 3,694 1.84
RLSP Subhash Singh Kushwaha 3,243 1.62
Rashtriya Jan Jan Party Aniket Ranjan 2,852 1.42
Independent Md. Mumtaz Alam 2,185 1.09
NOTA None of the above 6,344 3.16 +2.32
Majority 8,177 4.08 +1.8
Turnout 200,501 59.07 +1.37
BJP hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Pipra constituency[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyambabu Prasad Yadav 65,552 38.0
JD(U) Krishna Chandra 61,622 35.72
CPI(M) Raj Mangal Prasad 8,366 4.85
Independent Arun Kumar 7,266 4.21
Independent Parshuram Pandey 6,139 3.56
NCP Subhash Chandra Gupta 3,479 2.02
Independent Vikram Kumar 3,126 1.81
Garib Janta Dal (Secular) Sadhu Yadav 2,604 1.51
BSP Nagendra Sahani 1,847 1.07
Bahujan Kranti Party (Marxwad-Ambedkarwad) Ramayan Paswan 1,661 0.96
Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party Ramadhar Sah 1,613 0.94
SP Bhagya Narayan Prasad Yadav 1,560 0.9
NOTA None of the above 1,454 0.84
Majority 3,930 2.28
Turnout 172,496 57.7


References

  1. ^ a b "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 10 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Pipra Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.

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