Parihar Assembly constituency

Parihar
Constituency No. 25 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Division	Tirhut
District	Sitamarhi
Lok Sabha constituency	5. Sitamarhi
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gayatri Devi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Ram Naresh Prasad Yadav

Parihar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Sitamarhi district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 25. Parihar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Parihar community development block; Sonbarsa, Purandaha Rajwara Paschimi, Purandaha Rajwara Purvi, Indarwa, Pipra Parsain, Jainagar, Madhiya, Singhwahini, Bhaluaha, Bishunpur Aadhar and Dostia gram panchayats of Sonbarsha CD Block. ^[1]

Parihar Assembly constituency is part of 5. Sitamarhi (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Ram Naresh Prasad Yadav [2]		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 [3]	Gayatri Devi
2020 [4]

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Parihar ^{[4] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohd. Shams Shahnawaz	73,420	42.52	+1.8
	RJD	Ritu Jaiswal	71,851	41.61	+3.36
	RLSP	Amjad Hussain Anwar	9,968	5.77
	JAP(L)	Sarita Yadav	4,164	2.41	−2.5
	Independent	Jay Kumar	1,993	1.15
	Independent	Bhushan Prasad	1,587	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	3,590	2.08	−0.14
Majority			1,569	0.91	−1.56
Turnout			172,663	54.38	−2.99
	BJP gain from		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Parihar ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gayatri Devi	6,638	4.72
	RJD	Ram Chandra Purve	6,237	3.25
	JAP(L)	Sarita Yadav	8,005	4.91
	BSP	Nilam Yadav	6,794	4.17
	SP	Mohd. Shams Shahnawaz	28,222	31.73
	Independent	Devendra Thakur	2,631	1.61
	CPI	Md. Nazamuddin Ansari	2,405	1.48
	Independent	Jai Narayan Mahto	1,773	1.09
	NOTA	None of the above	3,618	2.22
Majority			4,017	2.47
Turnout			163,042	57.37

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. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2010" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
3. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
4. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.

External links

• "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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