Purnia Assembly constituency

Purnia
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Purnia
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

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

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 62. Purnia Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Purnia East community development block including Purnia Municipal Corporation. ^[1] In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Purnia was announced to be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. ^{[2] [3]}

Purnia Assembly constituency is part of No 12 Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [4]	Party
1952	Kamaldeo Narain Sinha		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967
1969
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Dev Nath Roy		Janata Party
1980	Ajit Sarkar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1985
1990
1995
1998^	Madhavi Sarkar
2000	Raj Kishore Kesri		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2011^	Kiran Devi
2015	Vijay Kumar Khemka
2020

Election results

2020

Source: ^[5]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Purnia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vijay Kumar Khemka	97,757	52.78%
	INC	Indu Sinha	65,603	35.42%
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[6]
	gain from		Swing

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. "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
3. "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility".
4. "Purnia Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
5. "Purnia Assembly Constituency Election Result" . Retrieved 5 February 2025.
6. "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

External links

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

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