Motihari Assembly constituency

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Motihari
Constituency No. 19 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
Division Tirhut
District East Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency Purvi Champaran
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Pramod Kumar.jpg
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year 2020
Preceded by Rama Devi

Motihari Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purvi Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Motihari will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [1] [2]

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Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 19. Motihari Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Motihari community development block including Motihari nagar parishad and Lautnaha notified area and Piprakothi CD block. [3]

Motihari Assembly constituency is part of 3. Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency). [3] It was earlier part of Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [4] Party
1952 Shakuntala Devi Indian National Congress
1957 Bigoo Ram
1962 Shakuntala Devi
1967 Chandrika Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Ram Sevak Prasad Jaiswal Indian National Congress
1972 Prabhawati Gupta
1977
1980
1985 Triveni Tiwari Communist Party of India
1990
1995
2000 Rama Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Pramod Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Motihari
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Pramod Kumar
RJD
JSP
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Motihari [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Pramod Kumar 92,733 49.44 +1.99
RJD Om Prakash Choudhary78,08841.63+5.17
RLSP Deepak Kumar Kushwaha3,7161.98
Independent Rameshvar Sah3,2631.74
Independent Zalaluddin Roy1,8470.98
NOTA None of the above 3,4551.84+0.3
Majority 14,6457.81−3.18
Turnout 187,55559.67+2.08
BJP hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Motihari [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Pramod Kumar 79,947 47.45
RJD Binod Kumar Shrivastava61,43036.46
Independent Manoj Kumar7,6194.52
BSP Ravi Bhushan Prasad6,3693.78
Aap Aur Hum Party Harishchandra Pandit2,9561.75
CPI(M) Arvind Kumar2,2421.33
CPI Tribeni Tiwari1,9051.13
Independent Tafajjul Hussain1,5700.93
NOTA None of the above 2,5891.54
Majority 18,51710.99
Turnout 168,49357.59

References

  1. ↑ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  2. 1 2 "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ "Motihari Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  5. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.

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