Garkha Assembly constituency

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Garkha
Constituency No. 119 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Saran
Lok Sabha constituency Saran
Established1957
Total electors311,162
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Surendra Ram
Party  RJD
Alliance MGB
Elected year 2025

Garkha is an assembly constituency in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

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Garkha is a small town. Facilities include a police station and hospital. It is 55 km away from the state capital Patna.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 119 Garkha Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Garkha community development block; Badlu Tola, Lohari, Purwi Telpa, Sherpur, Bishunupura, Khalpura Bala, Maharajganj, Chirand, Jalalpur, Bhairopur Nijamat, Dumari, Musepur, Raipur Bingawa and Kotwa Patti Rampur gram panchayats of Chapra CD Block. [1]

Garkha Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency). [1] It was previously part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [2] Party
1957 Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav Praja Socialist Party
1962 Shivshankar Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1967 Vishwanath Bhagat Independent politician
1969 Jaglal Chaudhary Indian National Congress
1972 Raghunandan Majhi
1977 Muneshwar Choudhary Janata Party
1980 Raghunandan Majhi Indian National Congress
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Muneshwar Choudhary Independent politician
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Raghunandan Majhi Independent politician
2005 Gyanchand Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party
2010
2015 Muneshwar Choudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Surendra Ram
2025

Election results

2025

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Garkha
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Surendra Ram 91,134 46.46 Decrease2.svg0.75
LJP(RV) Simant Mrinal7833039.94new
Independent Muneshwar Chaudhary94534.82new
JSP Manohar Kumar Ram53142.71new
BSP Avinash Kumar32781.67Increase2.svg0.40
NOTA None of the above 26171.33Decrease2.svg0.86
RLJP Vigan Manjhi16600.85new
RPI(A) Nagendra Ram14280.73new
Independent Neeraj Ram12870.66new
AAP Sadan Kumar10100.52new
Independent Nand Kishor Manjhi8060.41new
Majority 128046.52Increase2.svg0.90
Turnout 19614241.40Decrease2.svg16.13
RJD hold Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Garkha [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Surendra Ram 83,412 47.21 −9.38
BJP Gyanchand Manjhi73,47541.59+10.29
JAP(L) Muneshwar Choudhary4,4192.5+1.97
Independent Bigan Manjhi2,8741.63
Independent Shiv Prasad Manjhi2,6811.52
BSP Sabita Devi2,2471.27+0.87
NOTA None of the above 3,8742.19−1.0
Majority 9,9375.62−19.67
Turnout 176,67057.53+1.83
RJD hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Garkha [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Muneshwar Chaudhary 89,249 56.59
BJP Gyanchand Manjhi49,36631.3
Independent Sampat Ram Rahi4,7232.99
CPI Shivji Das2,2461.42
Independent Raghunandan Manjhi2,2241.41
NOTA None of the above 5,0273.19
Majority 39,88325.29
Turnout 157,71455.7

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. 1 2 "Garkha Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . 20 August 2018.

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