Gaighat Assembly constituency
| Gaighat | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 88 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Muzaffarpur |
| Established | 1967 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Rahul balour | |
| Party | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Gaighat (earlier called Gaighatti) is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Overview
[edit]As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 88 Gaighat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Gaighat and Bandra community development blocks; Katra, Sonpur, Berai South, Dhanaur, Madhepura and Shivdaspur gram panchayats of Katra CD Block.[1]
Gaighat Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| Year | Name[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Nitishwar Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Vinodanand Singh | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Jitendra Prasad Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1985 | Virendra Kumar Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1990 | Maheshwar Prasad Yadav | Independent politician | |
| 1995 | Janata Dal | ||
| 2000 | Virendra Kumar Singh | Janata Dal (United) | |
| 2005 | Maheshwar Prasad Yadav | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2010 | Veena Devi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | Maheshwar Prasad Yadav | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2020 | Niranjan Roy | ||
Election results
[edit]2020
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Niranjan Roy | 59,778 | 32.92 | −7.88 | |
| JD(U) | Maheshwar Pd Yadav | 52,212 | 28.75 | ||
| LJP | komal singh | 36,851 | 20.29 | ||
| Independent | Ganesh Jha | 3,142 | 1.73 | ||
| JP | Sudhir Kumar Jha | 3,019 | 1.66 | ||
| Independent | Subhash Chaudhary | 2,606 | 1.43 | ||
| Aam Janmat Party | Vipalav Kumar Paswan | 2,466 | 1.36 | ||
| The Plurals Party | Subodh Kumar Singh | 2,260 | 1.24 | ||
| Independent | Suresh Sahani | 2,065 | 1.14 | ||
| AIFB | Shubhankar Kumar Singh | 2,015 | 1.11 | +0.73 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,277 | 1.25 | +0.6 | |
| Majority | 7,566 | 4.17 | +2.05 | ||
| Turnout | 181,613 | 57.45 | +0.05 | ||
| RJD hold | Swing | ||||
2015
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Maheshwar prasad yadav | 67,313 | 40.8 | ||
| BJP | Veena Devi | 63,812 | 38.68 | ||
| Independent | Ashok Kumar Singh | 7,826 | 4.74 | ||
| Janta Dal Rashtravadi | Vishal Kumar | 2,822 | 1.71 | ||
| Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party | Vakil Sahani | 2,421 | 1.47 | ||
| BSP | Abdul- Wahab | 2,324 | 1.41 | ||
| Independent | Rani Singh | 2,262 | 1.37 | ||
| Independent | Md. Najul Ansari | 2,112 | 1.28 | ||
| Independent | Raghunandan Pd Singh | 1,885 | 1.14 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Jitendra Yadav | 1,698 | 1.03 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,070 | 0.65 | ||
| Majority | 3,501 | 2.12 | |||
| Turnout | 164,965 | 57.4 | |||
| RJD hold | Swing | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Gaighat Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ a b "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.