Arrah Assembly constituency | |
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Constituency No. 194 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
![]() Arrah Assembly constituency in Bhojpur | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | Bihar |
District | Bhojpur |
Lok Sabha constituency | Arrah |
Established | 1951 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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Incumbent | |
Party | BJP |
Alliance | NDA |
Elected year | 2020 |
Preceded by | Mohammad Nawaz Alam, ![]() |
Arrah Assembly constituency is one of 243 assembly seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. It is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other assembly constituencies named Sandesh, Barhara, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC). [1] Since 2015, Arrah has been one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [2] [3]
Arrah Assembly constituency comprises: [4]
From 1952 to 1967, Arrah had two assembly seats: Arrah and Arrah Muffasil. Later in 1967, Arrah Muffasil was merged into the Arrah constituency.
Ambika Sharan Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) had won the Arrah Muffasil Assembly constituency in 1952, 1957 and 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. [5]
The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Arrah constituency is as follows:
Year | Member [6] | Party | |
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1952 | Rang Bahadur Prasad | Indian National Congress | |
1957 | |||
1962 | Sumitra Devi | ||
1967 | |||
1969 | Ram Awdhesh Singh | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
1972 | Sumitra Devi | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Janata Party | ||
1980 | S. M. Isha | Indian National Congress | |
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1990 | Bashistha Narain Singh | Janata Dal | |
1995 | Abdul Malik | ||
2000 | Amrendra Pratap Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2005 Feb | |||
2005 Oct | |||
2010 | |||
2015 | Mohammad Nawaz Alam | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
2020 | Amrendra Pratap Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Amrendra Pratap Singh | 71,781 | 45.05 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Quyamuddin Ansari | 68,779 | 43.17 | ||
Independent | Hakim Prasad | 4,360 | 2.74 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 2,811 | 1.76 | ||
Majority | 3,002 | 1.88 | |||
Turnout | 1,59,332 | 48.34 | |||
Registered electors | 3,29,572 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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RJD | Mohammad Nawaz Alam | 70,004 | 44.94 | ||
BJP | Amrendra Pratap Singh | 69,338 | 44.51 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Quyamuddin Ansari | 5,035 | 3.23 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 3,203 | 2.06 | ||
Majority | 666 | 0.43 | |||
Turnout | 1,55,787 | 51.26 | |||
Registered electors | 3,03,897 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Amrendra Pratap Singh | 56,504 | 49.81 | ||
LJP | Shree Kumar Singh | 37,564 | 33.11 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Meena Tiwari | 5,314 | 4.68 | ||
INC | Mohd. Jawed Iqbal | 2,717 | 2.39 | ||
Majority | 18,940 | 16.70 | |||
Turnout | 1,13,450 | 49.40 | |||
Registered electors | 2,29,649 |