Sultanganj Assembly constituency

Sultanganj Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 157 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBhagalpur
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyJD U
AllianceNDA
Elected year2020

Sultanganj Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Dhoraiya, Banka, Katoria and Belhar.[1]

Overview

Sultanganj comprises CD Blocks Sultanganj & Shahkund.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[3] Party
1952 Rash Bihari Lal Indian National Congress
1957 Sarswati Devi
1962 Deviprasad Mahto
1967 Banarsi Prasad Sharma Praja Socialist Party
1969 Ram Raksha Prasad Yadav Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Jageshwar Mandal Janata Party
1980 Nand Kumar Manjhi Indian National Congress
1985 Umesh Chandras Das Indian National Congress
1990 Fanindra Choudhary Janata Dal
1995
2000 Ganesh Paswan Samata Party
2005 Sudhanshu Shekhar Bhaskar Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010 Subodh Roy
2015
2020 Lalit Narayan Mandal

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sultanganj[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Lalit Narayan Mandal 72,823 42.58 +1.64
INC Lalan Kumar 61,258 35.82
LJP Nilam Devi 10,222 5.98
RLSP Himanshu Prasad 5,713 3.34 −28.53
Bhartiya Sablog Party Ravi Suman Kumar @ Arun Mandal 4,692 2.74
Independent Ramanand Paswan 2,860 1.67
Independent Rajan Kumar 2,389 1.4
NOTA None of the above 4,719 2.76 −2.52
Majority 11,565 6.76 −2.31
Turnout 171,037 52.1 +2.05
JD(U) hold


2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Sultanganj[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Subodh Roy 63,345 40.94
RLSP Himanshu Prasad 49,312 31.87
Independent Lalan Kumar 14,073 9.1
Independent Rakesh Kumar Sah 4,041 2.61
JAP(L) Chakrapani Himanshu 3,186 2.06
CPI Dr. Dinesh Chandra Diwakar 2,732 1.77
BSP Gobind Bhaiya 2,140 1.38
SP Amar Jeet Kumar Singh 1,914 1.24
Independent Kiran Mishra 1,884 1.22
Independent Arun Kumar Singh 1,843 1.19
NOTA None of the above 8,165 5.28
Majority 14,033 9.07
Turnout 154,726 50.05
JD(U) hold


2010

Bihar assembly elections, 2010: Sultanganj[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Subodh Rai 34652 28.05
RJD Ramavatar Mandal 29807 24.12
JD(U) hold


References

  1. ^ "Banka Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Sultanganj Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.
  5. ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2015
  6. ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010