Dhaka Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Dhaka (disambiguation).

Dhaka
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Division	Tirhut
District	East Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency	Sheohar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pawan Kumar Jaiswal
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Faisal Rahman

Dhaka is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Bihar, in East Champaran district.

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 21. Dhaka Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Dhaka and Ghorasahan community development blocks. ^[1]

Dhaka Assembly constituency is part of 4. Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [2]	Party
1952	Masoodur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Nek Mahamad		Communist Party of India
1967	S. N. Sharma		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Masoodur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1972	Hafiz Idris Ansari
1977	Siyaram Thakur		Janata Party
1980	Motiur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1985
1990	Avaneesh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
2000	Manoj Kumar Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Avaneesh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal		Independent politician
2015	Faisal Rahman		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhaka

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP
	RJD
	JSP
	AIMIM	Rana Ranjit Singh
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Dhaka ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal	99,792	48.01	+11.35
	RJD	Faisal Rahman	89,678	43.15	−3.82
	RLSP	Ram Pukar Sinha	10,932	5.26
	NOTA	None of the above	2,965	1.43	+0.06
Majority			10,114	4.86	−5.45
Turnout			207,840	64.73	−0.53
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

• Faisal Rahman of RJD, won the Dhaka assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pawan Jaiswal of BJP.

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhaka ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Faisal Rahman	87,458	46.97
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal	68,261	36.66
	Independent	Ram Pukar Sinha	20,160	10.83
	NCP	Nek Mohammad	1,868	1.0
	NOTA	None of the above	2,548	1.37
Majority			19,197	10.31
Turnout			186,214	65.26

2010

• Pawan Kumar Jaiswal (IND), defeated Faisal Rahman of JD-U

1972

• Hafiz Idris Ansari (INC): 18,619 votes ^[5]
• Nek Mahamad Akhtar (IND): 15,688 votes

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. "Dhaka Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.
4. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . 20 August 2018.
5. "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1972". www.elections.in. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021.

External links

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

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