Amour Assembly constituency

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Amour
Constituency No. 56 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
LS constituency Kishanganj
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Indian Election Symbol Kite.svg   AIMIM
AllianceNone
Elected year 2020
Preceded by Abdul Zalil Mastan
Indian National Congress hand logo.svg   INC

Amour is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 56 Amour Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Amour and Baisa community development blocks. [1]

Amour Assembly constituency is part of No 10 Kishanganj (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

YearName [7] Party
1952 Mohammad Tahir Indian National Congress
1957 Mohammad Ismail Independent politician
1962 Mohammad Alijan Indian National Congress
1967 Hasibur Rahman Praja Socialist Party
1969
1972 Independent politician
1977 Chandrashekhar Jha Janata Party
1980 Moijuddin Minshi Indian National Congress
1985 Abdul Zalil Mastan Independent politician
1990 Indian National Congress
1995 Muzaffar Hussain Samajwadi Party
1997 Saba Zafar Independent politician
2000 Abdul Zalil Mastan Indian National Congress
2005
2005
2010 Saba Zafar Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Abdul Zalil Mastan Indian National Congress
2020 Akhtarul Iman All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

Election Results

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Amour
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIMIM Akhtarul Iman 94,459 51.17
JD(U) Saba Zafar 41,94422.72
INC Abdul Zalil Mastan 31,86317.26
JAP(L) Kumar Gupta 3,1641.71
LJP Manoj Kumar Nishad 9190.5
Majority52,51529.2%
Turnout 184,60660.0
Registered electors [8]
AIMIM gain from INC Swing

2015

General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar was held in 5 phases. Amour Assembly constituency had its polling in the last phase on 5 November 2015 and the result was declared on 8 November 2015. [9]

Candidates:

A total of 14 candidates filed their nominations, including one woman candidate. Out of those 14, one candidate withdraw his name from the candidature. 13 candidates contested the election, including the women candidate. Out of 13 candidates, 11 candidates' deposits were forfeited. [9]

Electors and voters:

Total number of 2,80,910 electors (1,49,626 male and 1,31,274 female) were registered. Out of those, only 1,69,281 (60.26%) voters turned out to cast their votes in 275 polling stations. [9]

Result:

Abdul Jalil Mastan of the Indian National Congress Party won the election by a margin of 51,997 votes (31.30% of total valid votes). The total votes cast in his favour was 1,00,135. Runner-up Saba Zafar of Bharatiya Janata Party received 48,138 votes. [9]

1977-2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Saba Zafar of BJP won the Amour assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress. [10] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress defeated Saba Jafar representing SP in October 2005, contesting as an Independent in February 2005 and representing RJD in 2000. Muzaffar Hussain of SP defeated Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress in 1995. A. Jalil of Congress defeated Muzaffar Hussain of ICS (SCS). Jalil, Independent, defeated Chandra Sekhar Jha of JP in 1985. M. Moijuddin Munshi of Congress defeated Nazmuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Raj Narain). Chandra Sekhar Jha of JP defeated Md. Moijuddin Munshi of Congress. [11]

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