Dhaka Assembly constituency

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Dhaka
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DivisionTirhut
DistrictEast Champaran
Lok Sabha constituencySheohar
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  RJD
Alliance  MGB
Elected year2025
Preceded byPawan Kumar Jaiswal

Dhaka is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Bihar, in East Champaran district.

Overview

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As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 21. Dhaka Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Dhaka and Ghorasahan community development blocks.[1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[2] Party
1952 Masoodur Rahman Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Nek Mahamad Communist Party of India
1967 S. N. Sharma Praja Socialist Party
1969 Masoodur Rahman Indian National Congress
1972 Hafiz Idris Ansari
1977 Siyaram Thakur Janata Party
1980 Motiur Rahman Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Avaneesh Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
2000 Manoj Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Avaneesh Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010 Pawan Jaiswal Independent
2015 Faisal Rahman Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Pawan Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party
2025 Faisal Rahman Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

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2025

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2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhaka
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Faisal Rahman 112,727 45.72
BJP Pawan Kumar Jaiswal 112,549 45.64
NOTA None of the Above 3,047 1.24
Majority 178
Turnout 246,580
RJD gain from BJP Swing

2020

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Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Dhaka[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Pawan Kumar Jaiswal 99,792 48.01 +11.35
RJD Faisal Rahman 89,678 43.15 −3.82
RLSP Ram Pukar Sinha 10,932 5.26
NOTA None of the above 2,965 1.43 +0.06
Majority 10,114 4.86 −5.45
Turnout 207,840 64.73 −0.53
BJP gain from RJD Swing

2015

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  • Faisal Rahman of RJD, won the Dhaka assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pawan Jaiswal of BJP.
2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhaka[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Faisal Rahman 87,458 46.97
BJP Pawan Kumar Jaiswal 68,261 36.66
Independent Ram Pukar Sinha 20,160 10.83
NCP Nek Mohammad 1,868 1.0
NOTA None of the above 2,548 1.37
Majority 19,197 10.31
Turnout 186,214 65.26

2010

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  • Pawan Kumar Jaiswal (IND), defeated Faisal Rahman of JD-U

1972

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  • Hafiz Idris Ansari (INC): 18,619 votes[5]
  • Nek Mahamad Akhtar (IND): 15,688 votes

References

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  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. ^ "Dhaka 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.
  5. ^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1972". www.elections.in. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021.
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