Garkha Assembly constituency

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Garkha
Constituency No. 119 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictSaran
Lok Sabha constituencySaran
Established1957
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Surendra Ram
Party  RJD
AllianceMGB
Elected year2025

Garkha is an assembly constituency in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Garkha is a small town. Facilities include a police station and hospital. It is 55 km away from the state capital Patna.

Overview

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As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 119 Garkha Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Garkha community development block; Badlu Tola, Lohari, Purwi Telpa, Sherpur, Bishunupura, Khalpura Bala, Maharajganj, Chirand, Jalalpur, Bhairopur Nijamat, Dumari, Musepur, Raipur Bingawa and Kotwa Patti Rampur gram panchayats of Chapra CD Block.[1]

Garkha Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was previously part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[2] Party
1957 Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav Praja Socialist Party
1962 Shivshankar Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1967 Vishwanath Bhagat Independent politician
1969 Jaglal Chaudhary Indian National Congress
1972 Raghunandan Majhi
1977 Muneshwar Choudhary Janata Party
1980 Raghunandan Majhi Indian National Congress
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Muneshwar Choudhary Independent politician
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Raghunandan Majhi Independent politician
2005 Gyanchand Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party
2010
2015 Muneshwar Choudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Surendra Ram
2025

Election results

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2025

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Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Garkha
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Surendra Ram 91,134 46.46 Decrease0.75
LJP(RV) Simant Mrinal 78330 39.94 new
Independent Muneshwar Chaudhary 9453 4.82 new
JSP Manohar Kumar Ram 5314 2.71 new
BSP Avinash Kumar 3278 1.67 Increase0.40
NOTA None of the above 2617 1.33 Decrease0.86
RLJP Vigan Manjhi 1660 0.85 new
RPI(A) Nagendra Ram 1428 0.73 new
Independent Neeraj Ram 1287 0.66 new
AAP Sadan Kumar 1010 0.52 new
Independent Nand Kishor Manjhi 806 0.41 new
Majority 12804 6.52 Increase0.90
Turnout 196142 41.40 Decrease16.13
RJD hold Swing

2020

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Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Garkha[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Surendra Ram 83,412 47.21 −9.38
BJP Gyanchand Manjhi 73,475 41.59 +10.29
JAP(L) Muneshwar Choudhary 4,419 2.5 +1.97
Independent Bigan Manjhi 2,874 1.63
Independent Shiv Prasad Manjhi 2,681 1.52
BSP Sabita Devi 2,247 1.27 +0.87
NOTA None of the above 3,874 2.19 −1.0
Majority 9,937 5.62 −19.67
Turnout 176,670 57.53 +1.83
RJD hold Swing


2015

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2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Garkha[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Muneshwar Chaudhary 89,249 56.59
BJP Gyanchand Manjhi 49,366 31.3
Independent Sampat Ram Rahi 4,723 2.99
CPI Shivji Das 2,246 1.42
Independent Raghunandan Manjhi 2,224 1.41
NOTA None of the above 5,027 3.19
Majority 39,883 25.29
Turnout 157,714 55.7

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. ^ a b "Garkha Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018.
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