| Balrampur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| Established | 2008 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party |  CPI(ML)L |
| Alliance | MGB |
| Elected year | 2020 |
| Preceded by | D. C. Goswami Won as : Independent Current :  JD(U) |
Balrampur (Bihar Assembly constituency) is an assembly constituency in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar.
As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 65. Balrampur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Balrampur and Barsoi community development blocks. [1]
Balrampur, Bihar Assembly constituency is part of No 11 Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]
| Year | Member [2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2010 | Dulal Chandra Goswami | Independent politician | |
| 2015 | Mahbub Alam | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | |
| 2020 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIMIM | Advocate Adil Hasan | ||||
| LJP(RV) | Sangita Devi | ||||
| JSP | Ashab Alam | ||||
| Independent | Barun Kumar Jha | ||||
| CPI(ML)L | Mahboob Alam | ||||
| BSP | Priya Roy | ||||
| PP | Shahid Shaikh | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(ML)L | Mahboob Alam | 104,489 | 51.11 | ||
| VIP | Barun Kumar Jha | 50,892 | 24.89 | ||
| LJP | Sangita Devi | 8,949 | 4.38 | ||
| Independent | Md. Zinnah | 7,878 | 3.85 | ||
| Rashtriya Jankranti Party | Azad Khan | 4,747 | 2.32 | ||
| Independent | Jagannath Das | 4,090 | 2.0 | ||
| NCP | Khawaja Bahauddin Ahmed | 3,443 | 1.68 | −0.29 | |
| SDPI | Munovar Husain | 3,254 | 1.59 | ||
| Peoples Party of India (Democratic) | Md. Shamim Akhtar | 3,072 | 1.5 | ||
| BMP | Sakir Alam | 2,872 | 1.4 | +1.05 | |
| Independent | Tanweer Shamsi | 2,041 | 1.0 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 5,166 | 2.53 | +1.07 | |
| Majority | 53,597 | 26.22 | +15.86 | ||
| Turnout | 204,439 | 61.3 | −4.94 | ||
| CPI(M-L) hold | Swing | ||||
In this election Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation candidate Mahbub Alam won Balrampur assembly seat defeating his nearest BJP rival Barun Kumar Jha. JD(U) candidate Dulal Chandra Goswami of JDU got third position in this seat. [3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(ML)L | Mahboob Alam | 62,513 | 31.7 | ||
| BJP | Barun Kumar Jha | 42,094 | 21.34 | ||
| JD(U) | Dulal Chandra Goswami | 40,114 | 20.34 | ||
| Independent | Niranjan Das | 14,033 | 7.12 | ||
| SS | Hansraj Yadav | 9,473 | 4.8 | ||
| AIMIM | Md. Adil Hasan | 6,375 | 3.23 | ||
| NCP | Habibur Rahman | 3,884 | 1.97 | ||
| Independent | Azad Khan | 3,463 | 1.76 | ||
| Janta Dal Rashtravadi | Md Mushtaque Alam | 2,897 | 1.47 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,875 | 1.46 | ||
| Majority | 20,419 | 10.36 | |||
| Turnout | 197,216 | 66.24 | |||
In the 2010 state assembly elections, Dulal Chandra Goshwami, Independent, won the newly created Balrampur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Mahbub Alam of CPI(ML)L. [5]