Rajpur, Bihar Assembly constituency

For the constituency in Madhya Pradesh, see Rajpur, Madhya Pradesh Assembly constituency.

Rajpur, Bihar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 202 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Buxar
Established	1977
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Vishwanath Ram
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Rajpur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Buxar Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Overview

Rajpur comprises community blocks of Rajpur & Itarhi; Gram Panchayats Ataon, Kanjharua, Mathila, Mugaon, Kasian & Koransarai of Dumraon CD Block. ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [3]	Party
1977	Nand Kishore Prasad		Janata Party
1980	Chaturi Ram		Indian National Congress
1985	Ram Narain Ram		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1995	Arjun Ram		Communist Party of India
2000	Chhedi Lal Ram		Bahujan Samaj Party
2005	Shyam Payari Devi		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Santosh Kumar Nirala
2015
2020	Vishwanath Ram		Indian National Congress

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Rajpur ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vishwanath Ram	67,871	36.76
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Nirala	46,667	25.28	−22.68
	BSP	Sanjay Ram	43,836	23.74	+14.04
	LJP	Nirbhaya Kumar Nirala	7,449	4.03
	Independent	Ajad Paswan	4,276	2.32
	Independent	Chhedi Lal Ram	2,365	1.28
	Independent	Neelkamal Prasad	1,873	1.01
	NOTA	None of the above	2,841	1.54	−0.14
Majority			21,204	11.48	−7.2
Turnout			184,616	56.97	−0.37
	INC gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Rajpur ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Nirala	84,184	47.96
	BJP	Bishawnath Ram	51,396	29.28
	BSP	Lalji Ram	17,031	9.7
	SBSP	Ajad Paswan	5,540	3.16
	Independent	Raj Bali Ram	3,495	1.99
	Independent	Surendra Paswan	2,940	1.67
	CPI(ML)L	Ramashanker Ram	2,143	1.22
	NOTA	None of the above	2,941	1.68
Majority			32,788	18.68
Turnout			175,536	57.34

References

1. "Rajpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
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 30 December 2017.
3. "Rajpur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
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.