Kuchaikote | |
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Constituency No. 102 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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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 | |
Party | Janata Dal (United) |
Elected year | 2020 |
Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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]
Year | Name [2] | Party | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD(U) | Amarendra Kumar Pandey | 74,359 | 41.19 | ||
INC | Kali Prasad Pandey | 53,729 | 29.76 | ||
RLSP | Sunita Devi | 33,533 | 18.57 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 7,656 | 4.24 | ||
LJP | Ravi Pandey | 2,226 | 1.23 | ||
Independent | Hari Narayan Singh | 2,687 | 1.49 | ||
Rest of the candidates | ~6,000 | 3.30 | |||
Majority | 20,630 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
JD(U) hold | Swing |