Kasba, Bihar Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Kasba.

Kasba, Bihar
Constituency No. 58 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Purnia
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Md Afaque Alam
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Kasba Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 58 Kasba Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kasba, Srinagar and Jalalgarh community development blocks; Kohbara, Bela Rikabganj and Jhunni Istambrar gram panchayats of Krityanand Nagar CD Block. ^[1]

Kasba Assembly constituency is part of No 12 Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [2]	Party
1967	Ram Narayan Mandal		Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977	Jai Narayan Mehta
1980	Mohammed Yasin		Indian National Congress
1985	Syed Gulam Hussein		Indian National Congress
1990	Shiv Charan Mehta		Janata Dal
1995	Pradeep Kumar Das		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000
2005	Md Afaque Alam		Samajwadi Party
2005	Pradeep Kumar Das		Bharatiya Janata Party
2010	Md Afaque Alam		Indian National Congress
2015
2020

Election results

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Md. Afaque Alam of Congress won the Kasba, seat defeating his nearest rival Pradip Kumar Das of BJP. ^[3] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Pradip Kumar Das of BJP defeated Md. Afaque Alam representing RJD in October 2005. Md. Afaque Alam representing SP defeated Pradip Kumar Das of BJP in February 2005. Pradip Kumar Das of BJP defeated Md. Afaque Alam, Independent, in 2000 and Shiv Charan Mehta of JD in 1995. Shiv Charan Mehta of JD defeated Md. Yasin of Congress in 1990. Syed Gulam Hussein of Congress defeated Sheo Charan Mehta of Lok Dal in 1985. Md. Yasin of Congress defeated Shiv Charan Mehta of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980. Jai Narayan Mehta of Congress defeated Bhubneshwar Arya of JP in 1977. ^[4]

2020

Source: ^{[5] [6]}

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Purnia ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Md Afaque Alam	77,410	41.12	−3.62
	LJP	Pradeep Kumar Das	60,132	31.94
	Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)	Rajendra Yadav	23,716	12.6
	Independent	Md Ittefaque Alam @ Munna Bhai	8,009	4.25
	AIMIM	Md Shahbaz Alam	5,316	2.82
	SDPI	Mohammad Nurul Haque	2,746	1.46
	NOTA	None of the above	4,012	2.13	+1.0
Majority			17,278	9.18	+8.19
Turnout			188,247	66.42	−2.61
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kasba ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Md. Afaque Alam	81,633	44.74
	BJP	Pradip Kumar Das	79,839	43.75
	Independent	Sanjay Kumar Mirdha	4,777	2.62
	Independent	Sada Nand Yadav	2,777	1.52
	NCP	Syed Ghulam Hussain	2,669	1.46
	BSP	Ajeet Kumar Mehta	2,318	1.27
	NOTA	None of the above	2,058	1.13
Majority			1,794	0.99
Turnout			182,478	69.03

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. "Kasba Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "Bihar - Kasba". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
4. "138 - Kasba Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
5. "Kasba Assembly Constituency Election Result" . Retrieved 5 February 2025.
6. "Bihar Legislative Election, 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
7. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . 20 August 2018.

External links

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

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