Araria Assembly constituency

For other places with same/similar name, see Araria (disambiguation).

Araria
Constituency No. 49 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Araria
Lok Sabha constituency	Araria
Established	1951
Total electors	318,978 [ needs update ]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Avidur Rahaman
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Araria Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 49 Araria Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Araria (community development block) including Araria nagar parishad. ^[1]

Araria Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [2]	Party
1952	Ziaur Rahman Hazi		Independent
1957			Indian National Congress
1962	Balkrishna Jha		Independent
1967	Shital Prasad Gupta		Indian National Congress
1969
1972	Azam		Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Srideo Jha		Indian National Congress
1980	Taslimuddin		Janata Party (Secular)
1985	Halimuddin Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1990	Vinod Kumar Roy		Independent
1995	Vijay Kumar Mandal		Bihar People's Party
2000			Independent
2005	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2009^	Vijay Kumar Mandal		Lok Janshakti Party
2010	Zakir Hussain Khan
2015	Avidur Rahman		Indian National Congress
2020
2025

^by-election

Election results

2025

Bihar Assembly election, 2025: Araria ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Avidur Rahman
	JD(U)	Shagufta Azim
	AIMIM	Md.Manzoor Alam
	JSP	Farhat Ara Begum
	Independent	Shivdeep W Lande
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Araria ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	103,054	54.84	+2.07
	JD(U)	Shagufta Azim	55,118	29.33
	AIMIM	Md. Rashid Anwer	8,924	4.75
	LJP	Chandra Shekhar Singh Baban	8,203	4.37	−25.6
	The Plurals Party	Amit Anand Jha	1,802	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	4,425	2.35	+0.12
Majority			47,936	25.51	+2.71
Turnout			187,908	58.91	−4.29
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Araria constituency ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	92,667	52.77
	LJP	Ajay Kumar Jha	52,623	29.97
	CPI	Captain S. R. Jha	5,898	3.36
	JAP(L)	Haider Yasin	4,862	2.77
	SP	Shad Ahmad	3,377	1.92
	Independent	Vijay Kumar Mishra	3,113	1.77
	Independent	Md. Sarvar Alam	2,714	1.55
	Independent	Vinod Kumar	2,344	1.33
	NOTA	None of the above	3,924	2.23
Majority			40,044	22.8
Turnout			175,608	63.2

2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Zakir Hussain Khan of LJP won the Araria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Narayan Kumar Jha of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Pradeep Kumar Singh of BJP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in October 2005 and February 2005. Vijay Kumar Mandal, Independent, defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 2000. Vijay Kumar Mandal of BPP defeated Durga Das Rathore of BJP in 1995. Vinod Kumar Roy, Independent, defeated Nand Kishore Mandal, Independent, in 1990. Halimuddin Ahmed of Congress defeated Nand Kishore Mandal of LD in 1985. Mohd. Taslimuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Shrideo Jha of Congress in 1980. Srideo Jha of Congress defeated Deo Narayan Mishra of JP in 1977. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

References

1. "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. "Araria Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
4. "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India .
5. "Araria election results". Travel India Guide. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
6. "Bihar - Araria". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
7. "130 - Araria Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2011.

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