Sonpur Assembly constituency

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

This article is about the assembly constituency in Bihar. For its eponymous assembly constituency In Odisha, see Sonepur Assembly constituency. For its eponymous town, see Sonpur, Bihar.

Sonpur Vidhan Sabha Saran Bihar

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

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

Year	Member	Party
1951	Jagadish 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

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sonpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	73,247
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Singh	66,561
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[5]
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

• Ramanuj Prasad Yadav (RJD) : 86,082 votes
• Vinay Kumar Singh (BJP) : 49686

1980 Vidhan Sabha

• Lalu Prasad Yadav (Janata-Secular) : 45,041 votes ^[6]
• Jawahar Prasad Singh (Indira Congress) : 35,874
• Ram Sunder Das (Janata Party) : 10396

1977 Vidhan Sabha

• Ram Sunder Das (JNP) : 40,747 votes ^[7]
• Rameshwar Prasad Rai (IND) : 15,411

References

1. "Roll of the dais Sonepur Assembly constituency". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016.
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.
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
5. "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
6. "Sonepur Assembly Constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly Constituency".
7. "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977".

External links

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

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