Sheohar Assembly constituency

Sheohar
Constituency No. 22 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DivisionTirhut
DistrictSheohar
Lok Sabha constituencySheohar
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyRashtriya Janata Dal
AllianceMahagathbandhan
Elected year2020
Preceded byMohammad Sharfuddin

Sheohar Assembly constituency (Hindi pronunciation: Shivahar Vidhan Sabha Nirvachan Kshetra) is an assembly constituency in Sheohar district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 22. Sheohar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sheohar, Piprarhi, Dumri Katsari and Purnahiya community development blocks.[1]

Sheohar Assembly constituency is part of 4. Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[2] Party
1952 Ram Swaroop Ram Independent politician
1957 Thakur Girijanandan Singh
1962 Chitaranjan Singh Indian National Congress
1967 Thakur Girijanandan Singh Independent politician
1969 Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1972 Raghunath Jha Indian National Congress
1977
1980
1985 Janata Party
1990 Janata Dal
1995
1998^ Thakur Ratnakar Rashtriya Janata Dal
2000 Satyanarayan Prasad
2005 Ajit Kumar Jha
2005
2010 Mohammad Sharfuddin Janata Dal (United)
2015
2020 Chetan Anand Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sheohar[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Kundan kumar kishor 73,143 42.69
JD(U) Mohammad Sharfuddin 36,457 21.28 −8.43
LJP Vijay Kumar Pandey 18,748 10.94
Independent Radha Kant Gupta 14,178 8.28
BSP Sanjeev Kumar Gupta 4,049 2.36 +0.42
Independent Virendra Pra. Yadav 4,030 2.35
Janta Dal Rashtravadi Shrinarayan Singh 3,952 2.31
JAP(L) Mohammed Wamique 3,415 1.99
Independent Sanjay Sangharsh Singh 2,934 1.71
NOTA None of the above 3,711 2.17 −0.75
Majority 36,686 21.41 +21.1
Turnout 171,326 56.52 +1.7
RJD gain from JDU Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sheohar[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Mohammad Sharfuddin 44,576 29.71
Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) Labhali Anand 44,115 29.4
Independent Thakur Ratnakar 22,309 14.87
SP Ajit Kumar Jha 15,891 10.59
Socialist Manoj Kumar 3,684 2.46
Independent Manoj Upadhyay 3,418 2.28
BSP Mohammad Imamudin 2,906 1.94
Independent Sanjay Kumar 2,834 1.89
Garib Janta Dal (Secular) Quamruzzama 2,370 1.58
Independent Manisha Devi 2,028 1.35
AIFB Akhilesh Kumar Singh 1,535 1.02
NOTA None of the above 4,383 2.92
Majority 461 0.31
Turnout 150,049 54.82


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. ^ "Sheohar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018.

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