Bankipur Assembly constituency

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Bankipur
Constituency No. 182 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Patna
Lok Sabha constituency Patna Sahib
Established2008
Total electors3,91,790
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Incumbent
Nitin Nabin
Minister of Road Construction, Bihar
Party Bhartiya Janta Party
Alliance NDA
Elected year 2020

Bankipore or Bankipur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a segment of Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bankipur was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [1] [2] This Constituency and seat is dominated by Kayastha Caste.

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Overview

Bankipore comprises Ward Nos. 4, 5, 7 to 13 & 15 in Patna Municipal Corporation of Patna Rural CD Block. The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha in population, in this constituency. [3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [4] Party
Before 2008: See Patna West
2010 Nitin Nabin Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bankipur [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Nitin Nabin 83,068 59.05 −1.14
INC Luv Sinha 44,03231.3−1.3
The Plurals Party Pushpam Priya5,1893.69
NOTA None of the above 1,2130.86+0.15
Majority 39,03627.75+0.16
Turnout 140,68335.91−4.33
BJP hold Swing


2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Bankipur [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Nitin Nabin 86,759 60.19
INC Ashish Kumar46,99232.6
CPI Shaukat Ali1,5421.07
NOTA None of the above 1,0210.71
Majority 39,76727.59
Turnout 144,15240.24
BJP hold Swing


2010

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2010: Bankipur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Nitin Nabin 78,77172.06
RJD Binod Kumar Srivastava17,93116.40
INC Durga Prasad6,0185.51
NCP Jakir Hussain1,2591.15
Independent Sunita Preetam9400.86
Majority 60,84055.66
Turnout 1,09,30936.96
BJP win (new seat)


See also

References

  1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  2. 1 2 "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. "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 20 December 2013.
  4. "Bankipur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  5. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.

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