Katihar Lok Sabha constituency

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Katihar
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
Assembly constituencies Katihar
Kadwa
Balrampur
Pranpur
Manihari
Barari
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Tariq Anwar assuming office as Minister of State for Agriculture in 2012 (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Party Indian National Congress hand logo.svg   INC
Alliance I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year 2024
Preceded by Dulal Chandra Goswami

Katihar is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.

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Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Katihar Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#NameDistrictMemberParty2024 lead
63 Katihar Katihar Tarkishore Prasad BJP JDU
64 Kadwa Shakeel Ahmad Khan INC JDU
65 Balrampur Mahbub Alam CPIML INC
66 Pranpur Nisha Singh BJP INC
67 Manihari (ST) Manohar Prasad Singh INC INC
68 Barari Bijay Singh JDU JDU

Members of Lok Sabha

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency: [1] [2]

YearNameParty
1957 Avadhesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
1958^Bhola Nath Biswas
1962 Priya Gupta Praja Socialist Party
1967 Sitaram Kesri Indian National Congress
1971 Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Yuvraj Janata Party
1980 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Indian National Congress
1989 Yuvraj Janata Dal
1991 Yunus Saleem
1996 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress
1998
1999 Nikhil Kumar Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party
2004
2009
2014 Tariq Anwar Nationalist Congress Party
2019 Dulal Chandra Goswami Janata Dal (United)
2024 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress

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Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Katihar [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Tariq Anwar 567,092 48.42
JD(U) Dulal Chandra Goswami 5,17,22944.16
Margin of victory49,8634.26
Turnout 11,72,53363.92
INC gain from JD(U) Swing

2019 general elections

2019 Indian general elections: Katihar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Dulal Chandra Goswami 559,423 50.05
INC Tariq Anwar 5,02,22044.93
NCP Muhammad Shakur9,2480.83
NOTA None of the Above 20,5841.84
Majority 57,2035.12
Turnout 11,18,28967.64
JD(U) gain from NCP Swing

2014 general elections

2014 Indian general elections: Katihar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
NCP Tariq Anwar [4] 4,31,29244.11+8.81
BJP Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 3,16,55232.37−4.86
JD(U) Dr. Ram Prakash Mahto1,00,76510.30+10.30
JMM Baleshwar Marandi33,5933.44+3.44
IND. Ashok Ku. Bhagat15,5471.59+1.59
IND. Kanhai Mandal10,5161.08+1.08
CPI(ML)L Mahbub Alam9,4610.97−3.45
Majority 1,14,74011.74
Turnout 9,77,83067.60
NCP gain from BJP Swing

2009 general elections

2009 Indian general elections: Katihar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 2,69,83437.23
NCP Shah Tariq Anwar 2,55,81935.30
LJP Ahmad Ashfaque Karim45,7736.32
IND. Himraj Singh42,0265.80
CPI(ML)L Mahboob Alam32,0354.42
IND. Mohammad Hamid Mubarak23,8943.30
Majority 14,0151.93
Turnout 7,24,80256.95
BJP hold Swing

1971 general elections

See also

References

  1. "Election Commission of India" Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Election Commission of India (4 June 2024). "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Katihar". Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  4. "Katihar Lok Sabha Election Result - Parliamentary Constituency".
  5. "1971 India General (5th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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