Saharsa Assembly constituency

Saharsa
Constituency No. 75 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saharsa
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Alok Ranjan Jha
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	RJD Arun Kumar Yadav

Saharsa Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Saharsa district in the Indian state of Bihar. ^[1]

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 75 Saharsa Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kahara community development block including Saharsa nagar parishad; Saur Bazar CD Block. ^[2] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Saharsa will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. ^{[3] [4]}

Saharsa Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Madhepura (Lok Sabha constituency) . ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [5]	Party
1957	Vishweshvari Devi		Indian National Congress
1962	Ramesh Jha		Praja Socialist Party
1967			Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977	Shankar Prasad Tekriwal		Janata Party
1980	Ramesh Jha		Indian National Congress
1985	Satish Chandra Jha
1990	Shankar Prasad Tekriwal		Janata Dal
1995
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Sanjeev Kumar Jha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010	Alok Ranjan Jha
2015	Arun Kumar Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Alok Ranjan Jha		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Saharsa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Alok Ranjan Jha
	IIP	IP Gupta
	JSP	Kishor Kumar
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Saharsa ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Alok Ranjan Jha	103,538	45.59	+12.77
	RJD	Lovely Anand	83,859	36.93	−16.1
	Independent	Kishor Kumar	12,592	5.54
	Independent	Ranjit Kumar Rana	9,994	4.4
	Independent	Siyaram Paswan	3,276	1.44
	NOTA	None of the above	5,307	2.34	−0.35
Majority			19,679	8.66	−11.55
Turnout			227,106	61.22	+3.51
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Saharsa ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Arun Kumar Yadav	113,850	57.41
	BJP	Alok Ranjan Jha	63,644	32.09
	JAP(L)	Sanjana Devi	6,618	3.41
	Independent	Ramesh Kumar Sharma	3,853	1.99
	CPI(M)	Vinod Kumar	3,253	1.68
	Independent	Ranveer Kumar	1,878	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	5,211	2.69
Majority			50,206	25.32
Turnout			1,98,307	59.71

References

1. "Rampaging monkeys become election issue in India".
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.
3. "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
4. "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility".
5. "Saharsa Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
6. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.
7. "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.

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