Kishanganj, Bihar Assembly constituency

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Kishanganj, Bihar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 54 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Kishanganj
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Indian National Congress
Elected year 2020

Kishanganj is an assembly constituency in Kishanganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Contents

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 54 Kishanganj Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kishanganj municipality; Motihara Toluka, Singhia Kulamani, Halamala, Taisa gram panchayats of Kishnaganj community development block; and Pothia CD Block. [1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Kishanganj will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [2] [3]

Kishanganj Assembly constituency is part of No 10 Kishanganj (Lok Sabha constituency). [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Following is the list of Members of Legislative Assembly from Kishanganj Assembly Constituency. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

YearName [21] Party
1952 Rawatmal Agrwal Indian National Congress
Kamleshwari Prasad Yadav
1955^ Kamleshwari Prasad Yadav [22]
1957 Abdul Hayat
1962 Mohammad Hussain Azad Swatantra Party
Yashoda Devi Indian National Congress
1967 Shushila Kapoor Praja Socialist Party
1969 Rafique Alam Indian National Congress
1972
1977
1980 Mohammad Mushtaque Janata Party (Secular)
1985 Lok Dal
1990 Janata Dal
1995 Rafique Alam Indian National Congress
2000 Taslimuddin Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Akhtarul Iman
2005
2010 Mohammad Jawed Indian National Congress
2015
2019^ Qamrul Hoda All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
2020 Ijaharul Hussain Indian National Congress

^by-election

Election results

1977-2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Dr. Mohammad Jawed of Congress won the Kishanganj seat defeating his nearest rival Sweety Singh of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Akhtarul Iman of RJD defeated Sanjeev Kumar Yadav of BJP in October 2005 and February 2005. Taslimuddin of RJD defeated Rajeswar Baid of BJP in 2000. Rafique Alam of Congress defeated Md. Mustaque Munna of JD in 1995. Md. Mustaque Munna of JD defeated Khalilur Rahman of Congress in 1990. Md. Mustaque Munna of LD defeated Md. Usman of Congress in 1985. Md. Mustaque Munna of Janata Party (Secular – Chanara Singh) defeated Rafique Alam of Congress in 1980. Rafique Alam of Congress defeated Badri Narayan Mandal of JP in 1977. [23] [24] [25]

2019

As per the voter list of 2019, there were 286,240 electorates and 271 polling stations in this constituency. Voter turnout was 64.81% in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. [26]

2019 Bihar Legislative Assembly By election; Kishanganj
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIMIM Qamrul Hoda70,46941.46
BJP Sweety Singh60,26535.46
INC Sayeeda Banu25,28514.88
AITC Jannat Nasreen Khan6,7723.2
Independent Md Imran5,0933.0
Majority10,2046.0
Turnout
AIMIM gain from INC Swing

[27]

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kishanganj
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ijaharul Hussain 61,078 34.20
BJP Sweety Singh 59,69733.42
AIMIM Qamrul Hoda 41,90423.46
Majority1,3780.78
Turnout 1,78,61060.84
INC gain from AIMIM Swing

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