Bettiah Assembly constituency

Bettiah
Constituency No. 8 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Division	Tirhut
District	Paschim Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency	2. Paschim Champaran
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Renu Devi
Party	BJP
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Madan Mohan Tiwari,   INC

Bettiah Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bettiah will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. ^{[1] [2]}

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 8. Bettiah Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bettiah community development block; and Mohaddipur, Majhaulia, Parsa, Bahuarawa, Gudara, Jaukatia, Bakharia, Rulahi, Rajabhar, Karamawa, Lal Saraiya, Ramnagar Bankat, Amawa Majhar, Majharia Sheikh, Ahawar Kuria, Madhopur, Senuwaria and Bishambharpur gram panchayats of Majhaulia CD Block. ^[3]

Bettiah Assembly constituency is part of 2. Paschim Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[3] It was earlier part of Bettiah (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [4]	Party
1952	Prajapati Mishra		Indian National Congress
1952^	Ketaki Devi
1957	Jay Narayan Prasad
	Jagannath Pd. Swatantra
1962	Jay Narayan Prasad
1967	H.P. Shahi		Independent
1969	Gauri Shankar Pandey		Indian National Congress
1972	Krishna Mohan Pandey
1977	Gauri Shankar Pandey
1980
1985
1990	Madan Prasad Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Birval Yadava		Janata Dal
2000	Renu Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015	Madan Mohan Tiwari		Indian National Congress
2020	Renu Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP
	INC
	JSP
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bettiah ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Renu Devi	84,496	52.83	+9.14
	INC	Madan Mohan Tiwari	66,417	41.53	−3.73
	PP	Avkash Kumar Gupta	1,559	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	2,017	1.26	−0.04
Majority			18,079	11.3	+9.73
Turnout			159,932	56.26	−2.98
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Madan Mohan Tiwari	66,786	45.26
	BJP	Renu Devi	64,466	43.69
	Independent	Sameer Hasan	2,851	1.93
	CPI(M)	Mohammad Saidullah	1,628	1.1
	BSP	Lakshmi Ram	1,553	1.05
	Independent	Punydeo Prasad	1,355	0.92
	SS	Ramesh Chandra Sinha	1,348	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	1,918	1.3
Majority			2,320	1.57
Turnout			147,563	59.24
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Renu Devi	42,010	39.57
	Independent	Anil Kumar Jha	13,221	12.45
	INC	Madan Mohan Tiwari	12,499	11.77
	LJP	Virval Yadav	11,511	10.84
Majority			28,789	27.12
Turnout			1,06,163	55.25
	BJP hold		Swing

References

1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India .
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 10 January 2011.
4. "Bettiah Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 30 January 2022.

External links

• "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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