Kuchaikote Assembly constituency

Kuchaikote
Constituency No. 102 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Gopalganj
Lok Sabha constituency	17. Gopalganj (SC)
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Amrendra Kumar Pandey
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 102 Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kuchaikote and Pachdeuri community development blocks. ^[1] Kuchaykot assembly and its surrounding areas are dominated by Brahmin voters. This is why most of the time MLAs from Brahmin caste have been elected from here, here all the parties mostly give tickets to Brahmin candidates for Brahmin votes.

Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [2]	Party
1952	Shiva Kumar Pathak		Indian National Congress
1957	Vachaspati Sharma
1962	Shiva Kumar Pathak
1967	Nagina Rai		Independent politician
1969			Janata Party
1972			Indian National Congress
1976-2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Amrendra Kumar Pandey		Janata Dal (United)
2015
2020

Election results

2020

^[3]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kuchaikote ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Amrendra Kumar Pandey	74,359	41.19	−2.09
	INC	Kali Prasad Pandey	53,729	29.76
	RLSP	Sunita Devi	33,533	18.57
	Independent	Hari Narayan Singh	2,687	1.49
	LJP	Ravi Pandey	2,226	1.23	−39.91
	Independent	Sudhanshu Kumar Pandey	1,681	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	7,656	4.24	−0.26
Majority			20,630	11.43	+9.29
Turnout			180,530	55.85	−0.02
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kuchaikote ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Amrendra Kumar Pandey	72,224	43.28
	LJP	Kali Prasad Pandey	68,662	41.14
	Independent	Parshuram Kumar	4,936	2.96
	CPI(M)	Muna Prasad	4,615	2.77
	Independent	Om Prakash Prasad	2,355	1.41
	BSP	Sadman Ali	1,801	1.08
	Garib Janta Dal (Secular)	Arjun Prasad Kushwaha	1,550	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	7,512	4.5
Majority			3,562	2.14
Turnout			166,892	55.87

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. "Kuchaikote Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "Kuchaikote (Bihar) Elections Results 2020 LIVE: Constituency Details, List of Candidates, Last Winner and more". NDTV.com. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
4. "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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