Gaighat Assembly constituency

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Gaighat
Constituency No. 88 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Muzaffarpur
Established1967
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Rahul balour
PartyRashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year 2020

Gaighat (earlier called Gaighatti) is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 88 Gaighat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Gaighat and Bandra community development blocks; Katra, Sonpur, Berai South, Dhanaur, Madhepura and Shivdaspur gram panchayats of Katra CD Block. [1]

Gaighat Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [2] Party
1967 Nitishwar Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977 Vinodanand Singh Janata Party
1980 Jitendra Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
1985 Virendra Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
1990 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Independent politician
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Virendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United)
2005 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2010 Veena Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Niranjan Roy

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gaighat [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD RAVI Roy 59,778 32.92 −7.88
JD(U) Maheshwar Pd Yadav52,21228.75
LJP komal singh36,85120.29
Independent Ganesh Jha3,1421.73
JP Sudhir Kumar Jha3,0191.66
Independent Subhash Chaudhary2,6061.43
Aam Janmat Party Vipalav Kumar Paswan2,4661.36
The Plurals Party Subodh Kumar Singh2,2601.24
Independent Suresh Sahani2,0651.14
AIFB Shubhankar Kumar Singh2,0151.11+0.73
NOTA None of the above 2,2771.25+0.6
Majority 7,5664.17+2.05
Turnout 181,61357.45+0.05
RJD hold Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Gaighat [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Maheshwar prasad yadav 67,313 40.8
BJP Veena Devi63,81238.68
Independent Ashok Kumar Singh7,8264.74
Janta Dal Rashtravadi Vishal Kumar2,8221.71
Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party Vakil Sahani2,4211.47
BSP Abdul- Wahab2,3241.41
Independent Rani Singh2,2621.37
Independent Md. Najul Ansari2,1121.28
Independent Raghunandan Pd Singh1,8851.14
CPI(ML)L Jitendra Yadav1,6981.03
NOTA None of the above 1,0700.65
Majority 3,5012.12
Turnout 164,96557.4
RJD hold Swing

References

  1. 1 2 "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. ↑ "Gaighat Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. 1 2 "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.

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