Sonpur Assembly constituency

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Sonpur
Constituency No. 122 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Saran
Established1951
Elected year 2020

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Sonpur Vidhan Sabha Saran Bihar

Sonpur Assembly constituency, often spelt Sonepur, is in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. [1]

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Ram Sundar Das, sitting MLA from Sonpur 1977–1980, served as Bihar's Chief Minister briefly in 1979.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 122 Sonpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sonpur and Dighwara C.D. blocks. [2] [3] [4]

Sonpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency). [2] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Vidhan Sabha

YearMemberParty
1952Jagadish Sharma Indian National Congress
1957 Ram Binod Singh Independent
1962 Sheo Bachan Singh Communist Party of India
1967 Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977 Ram Sunder Das Janata Party
1980 Lalu Prasad Yadav Janata Party
1985 Lok Dal
1990 Raj Kumar Roy Janata Dal
1995
2000 Vinay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2005 Ramanuj Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2010 Vinay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Ramanuj Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020
2025 Vinay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Sonepur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vinay Kumar Singh 90,842 45.59
RJD Ramanuj Prasad Yadav 86,07543.2
JSP Chandan Lal Mehta11,9776.01new
NOTA None of the above 2,6061.31
Majority 4,7672.39
Turnout 199,240
BJP gain from RJD Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sonpur [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Ramanuj Prasad Yadav 73,247 43.11 −11.76
BJP Vinay Kumar Singh66,56139.18+7.51
Independent Chandan Lal8,6675.1
Independent Ramesh Kumar5,5413.26
Independent Suman Kumar3,0551.8
Independent Hem Narayan Singh3,0441.79
Independent Pinki Kumari Prasad1,9421.14
NCP Dharamveer Kumar1,6030.94
NOTA None of the above 1,5460.91−1.82
Majority 6,6863.93−19.27
Turnout 169,89658.96+0.4
RJD hold Swing


2015


2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sonpur [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Dr. Ramanuj Prasad 86,082 54.87
BJP Vinay Kumar Singh49,68631.67
Independent Binod Kumar Singh3,6062.3
Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party Pradeep Kumar Sahni3,2652.08
Independent Sudhir Kumar Singh Alias Bhola Singh2,3121.47
Independent Ashok Singh2,1721.38
NOTA None of the above 4,2902.73
Majority 36,39623.2
Turnout 156,88458.56


1980


1977

References

  1. ↑ "Roll of the dais Sonepur Assembly constituency". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . 20 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Sonepur Assembly Constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly Constituency".
  8. ↑ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977".

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