| Banka | |
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| Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Banka |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Banka is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Dhoraiya. [1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Banka was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [2] [3] [4]
Banka comprises CD Blocks Barahat & Banka. [5]
| Year | Name [6] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Raghavendra Narain Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Bindhyabasini Devi | ||
| 1962 | Braj Mohan Singh | Swatantra Party | |
| 1963^ | Bindhyabasini Devi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | B.L. Mandal | Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Sindheshwar Prasad Singh | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1985 | Chandrashekhar Singh | ||
| 1986^ | Janardan Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1990 | Ramnarayan Mandal | ||
| 1995 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Janata Dal | |
| 2000 | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2005 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2010 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2014^ | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ramnarayan Mandal | 69,762 | 43.8 | +5.44 | |
| RJD | Javed Iqbal Ansari | 52,934 | 33.24 | −2.39 | |
| RLSP | Kaushal Kishore Singh | 10,996 | 6.9 | ||
| Independent | Shridhar Mandal | 5,107 | 3.21 | ||
| Independent | Naresh Kumar Priyadarshi | 2,748 | 1.73 | ||
| Independent | Pramod Singh Weldone | 2,155 | 1.35 | ||
| Independent | Pawan Kumar Thakur | 2,072 | 1.3 | ||
| Independent | Patric Murmu | 2,042 | 1.28 | ||
| Independent | Manoj Singh, S/0-Janardan Singh | 2,040 | 1.28 | ||
| Independent | Chandra Prakash | 1,792 | 1.13 | ||
| Rashtriya Manav Sewa Party | Rahul Roushan | 1,579 | 0.99 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,084 | 0.68 | −1.52 | |
| Majority | 16,828 | 10.56 | +7.83 | ||
| Turnout | 159,271 | 62.59 | +4.66 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ramnarayan Mandal | 52,379 | 38.36 | ||
| RJD | Zafrul Hoda | 48,649 | 35.63 | ||
| BSP | Ajit Kumar Singh | 16,548 | 12.12 | ||
| Independent | Manoj Singh | 5,191 | 3.8 | ||
| Independent | Digambar Mandal | 4,071 | 2.98 | ||
| Independent | Makhan Yadav | 2,018 | 1.48 | ||
| Independent | Rajendra Ray | 1,579 | 1.16 | ||
| Bhartiya Dalit Party | Umakant Yadav | 1,240 | 0.91 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,004 | 2.2 | ||
| Majority | 3,730 | 2.73 | |||
| Turnout | 136,529 | 57.93 | |||